Episode 57 — Power Planning: voltage, wattage, amperage, PDUs, UPS essentials
Physical campus requirements in CloudNetX include power planning because networks fail in predictable ways when electrical capacity and protection are treated as afterthoughts. This episode defines voltage, amperage, and wattage in operational terms, emphasizing that wattage represents real load that drives heat and capacity consumption, and that amperage limits often determine breaker and circuit constraints. The first paragraph explains why PDUs matter as distribution and monitoring points, and why UPS systems matter not only for runtime but also for conditioning and clean shutdown behavior. It also frames power planning as a dependency map: switches, wireless controllers, PoE endpoints, and core routing gear must be supported through outages long enough to meet business expectations or to fail safely.
