When designing the Panduit Gen 5 PDUs, the engineer took an outside approach and looked at the major rack PDU design trends that were of value in the marketplace. First and foremost was the need for the rack PDUs to be built to withstand a higher operating temperature. This is driven off of the PDUs typically residing in the hot aisle, and the desire to save on cooling costs by raising temps as high as possible. The next thing the engineer saw was the desire to maximize outlet density per form factor. This is driven off of the fact that rack space is becoming more and more valuable; and many datacenter managers want to pack as much equipment power as they can, in the rack. Next, the desire for the controller module to be not only replaceable but also hot-swappable; which allows one to swap a controller without need to power the entire strip down. Gb ethernet is another major trend, not only for the speed of the port, but in recognizing that datacenter level network switches no longer auto negotiate below Gb; causing the need for a network engineer to manually configure a specific port to run at 10/100. This is added cost at the end user level; and the engineer wanted to alleviate this additional labor. Finally, accidental equipment cord disconnects were recognized as the leading cause of equipment downtime. So, Panduit solved that challenge by giving 2 different options to the marketplace.