{"id":4185,"date":"2018-08-15T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugpower.local\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2018-08-15T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:18:38","slug":"plug-power-presents-telecom-fuel-cells-at-ise-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plugpower.com\/blog\/plug-power-presents-telecom-fuel-cells-at-ise-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug Power Presents Telecom Fuel Cells at ISE EXPO"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISE EXPO<\/a> is the Information & Communications Technology industry’s premier educational event for wireline and wireless network transformation.\u00a0 Each year, ISE EXPO provides a robust set of educational seminars tailored to telecom professionals and Plug Power has been involved since 2010.\u00a0 At the August 2018 event, Plug Power\u2019s Darin Painter, executive sales director for stationary power, spoke to a crowded room about how trends in LTE networks and backup power are meshing to morph best practices for telecom power.<\/p>\n

Telecom is an industry immersed in change, as it seeks to make communication better, faster and more robust.\u00a0 Traditional wireless and wireline telecommunication sites have served multiple generations of communications equipment, which was not always efficient in terms of power draw.\u00a0 Diesel generators have been used to provide backup power to these locations for many years.<\/p>\n

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As manufacturers of communications equipment have increased the power efficiency and carriers have moved to newer technology, telecom sites have reduced their power and space requirements.\u00a0 This has opened the door to technologies including fuel cells, which can provide a lowest capital cost solution as well as higher reliability and lower maintenance requirements.<\/p>\n

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Telecom carriers like AT&T, Sprint and Southern Linc<\/a> are continuing to increase their involvement with sustainability for a variety of reasons, as noted by a blog written by Renewable Choice Energy<\/a> and summarized below.\u00a0 What this comes down to is a long-term trend toward sustainability, not just a blip on the radar.<\/p>\n

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As seen below, fuel cell solutions, like Plug Power\u2019s GenSure product line<\/a>, are very well suited to a variety of telecom network strategies, including the following:<\/p>\n