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Rack units describe vertical mounting space. They do not confirm equipment depth, weight, rail compatibility, airflow clearance, cable bend radius, PDU mounting or cabinet load rating. Those must be checked separately against the equipment and cabinet specifications.

Important: electrical load converted to heat does not by itself size an air-conditioning system. Room heat gains, UPS losses, lighting, people, environmental conditions, redundancy and the cooling design must also be considered.

Nominal capacity is based on equal usable capacity per drive, limited by the smallest drive. Controller metadata, filesystem overhead, formatting and vendor implementation can reduce space available to applications. RAID is not a backup.

This is a bitrate-based data-volume calculation. Actual variable-bitrate recording depends on scene complexity, codec, frame rate, resolution, motion and camera settings. NVR overhead and storage protection are not included.

This counts physical access ports only. It does not determine switch architecture, uplink bandwidth, stacking, redundancy, VLAN design, PoE capacity or oversubscription.

REFERENCE Optical loss budgets include fibre length and connection/splice losses. Application limits and component values vary, so this tool deliberately requires those values to be entered rather than silently assuming a fibre type or application.

This tool does not determine cable category, maximum link length, pathway fill, separation from power, fire rating, earthing/bonding, test limits or local regulatory requirements. Those depend on the installation and applicable standards.

REFERENCE UPS selection requires both W and VA load/capacity to be considered. Runtime depends on the specific UPS, battery system and load. Netcomtech does not estimate runtime from VA alone.