Cyber Switching Receives 2010 Smart Grid Excellence Award

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Feb 18, 2011, 02:56 ET

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyber Switching (www.cyberswitching.com), a leading provider and innovator of power distribution and power management solutions, announced today that the ePower® intelligent power distribution unit (iPDU) has received a 2010 Smart Grid Excellence Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) and Intelligent Communications Partners (ICP).

"Cyber Switching is thrilled to have the ePower iPDU recognized with a 2010 Smart Grid Excellence Award," said Tom Schoepf, Sr. Product Manager at Cyber Switching. "The ePower was specifically designed and built from the ground up to expand a datacenter's power grid into the Smart Grid."

ePower helps customers manage their power grid by providing critical metering data over remote management capabilities such as HTTP/S, Web Services, SSH, Telnet, Syslog, SMTP, and Cisco® EnergyWise. With ePower, customers lower operational costs, identify energy reduction opportunities, and even incentivize energy users to manage their own power consumption. For a colocation or enterprise datacenter with several groups of users, real-time power usage can now be tracked and attributed to each individual user, allowing the datacenter to charge customers based on actual usage and aligning user behavior with power reduction benefits.

"I am pleased to honor Cyber Switching for its hard work and contribution toward the future of smart grid technologies," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "I look forward to more innovation from Cyber Switching in the future," he added.

Winners are published on SmartGrid.TMCnet.com and included in its E-newsletter.

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About Cyber Switching

www.cyberswitching.com

An Inc. 5000 company, Cyber Switching is a leading provider and innovator of power distribution and power management products. Cyber Switching has a reputation for developing green solutions which integrate rich features with unsurpassed reliability and great value.

About Smart Grid

The Smart Grid Website on TMCnet serves as a resource for the rapidly developing technologies that enable and harness Smart Grids, with particular emphasis on applications, products and software for improving residential, business, institutional and facilities' power consumption. SmartGrid.TMCnet.com is sponsored by Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Intelligent Communications Partners.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, NGN and InfoTECH Spotlight magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries.

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In addition, TMC produces ITEXPO; 4GWE Conference and M2M Evolution (in conjunction with Crossfire Media); Digium|Asterisk World (in conjunction with Digium); and Smart Grid Summit (in conjunction with Intelligent Communication Partners). TMC serves other communications market segments with the Cloud Communications Summit (in conjunction with Light and Electric); CVx ChannelVision Expo (in conjunction with Beka Publishing); VIPeering Voice Interconnect and Peering Conference (in conjunction with Crossfire Media); SocialCRM Expo; Business Video Expo (in conjunction with Interactive Media Strategies); StartupCamp; and SIP Tutorial.