Eaton Announces Eaton Outdoor Pole Solution for 5G, IoT Equipments

Power management company, Eaton, has announced its Eaton Outdoor Pole Solution (OPS2) which powers telecom 4G and 5G remote radio units, CCTV and industrial IoT equipment. For 5G to be ubiquitous, power has to be ubiquitous. Eaton says its OPS2 can make that happen.

The OPS2 is compact and durable and can be placed outside on buildings and poles, as well as inside pits and in all sorts of places in all sorts of weather and conditions. Eaton has a lengthy history of providing industrial, reliable power solutions from hyper-scale data centres to office buildings. However, the OPS2 marks a departure from internal power systems.

To support the rollout of 5G mobile services it must, of course, be small enough to place wherever needed and be capable of handling hot, cold, dry, wet and all other types of weather. These core features alone mean telcos can use the OPS2 to build denser 5G networks with low power consumption.