Networking Thermal Management
Keeping a data center or an electronic system running at peak efficiency and reliability hinges on networking thermal management. High-performance electronic devices generate significant amounts of heat that must be dealt with if the devices—and the networking equipment built around them—are to function at all, let alone properly. The two main strategies for thermal management in a data center or any kind of large electronics network are active cooling systems and passive cooling solutions.
Addressing the demands of today's data centers is what liquid cooling systems and proper thermal management solutions do best. Their make-up is much like that of the traditional air-cooling systems, with one major difference: they use liquid and not air to absorb the excessive heat generation of the equipment. Traditional air-cooling systems use fans, with electricity powering both the fans and the networking hardware, to pull air in and push it out again. In doing so, air must flow in sufficient volume and speed to ensure that all components remain stable. Liquid-cooling systems, by contrast, use the more efficient method of conducting (and convecting) away heat, which makes using them a pretty cost-effective method of preserving the contrasts that stability makes possible.
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