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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Chad M. Jones, Doylestown, OH (US);
Jason Dewayne Potterf, Austin, TX (US);
Joel Richard Goergen, Soulsbyville, CA (US);
Elizabeth Kochuparambil, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Douglas Paul Arduini, Florence, OR (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A power distribution unit (PDU) includes a housing configured to be mounted into or on a rack that has a plurality of shelf positions for a variety of computing equipment, networking equipment or data storage equipment. The PDU includes power inputs. The power inputs are configured to receive one or more of: alternating current (AC) power, high voltage direct current (DC) power, single-phase fault managed power, or multi-phase fault managed power. The PDU further includes at least one fault managed power module configured to be contained in the housing, the at least one fault managed power module including a power transmitter configured to generate single-phase or multi-phase fault managed power from the AC power and/or high voltage DC power. The PDU also includes a plurality of connectors on the housing and configured to provide cable connections to one or more of the plurality of shelf positions of the rack.