The Pan African DataCentres (PADC) Exhibition & Conference – held at the Sandton Convention Centre in July 2024 – was a great success for Legrand South Africa.
Although Legrand has played a prominent role in Southern Africa’s digital sector for many years, the company’s comprehensive data centre solutions are now even more critical in a burgeoning market. Legrand – which has made a significant investment in the latest digital technologies and trends – offers customised solutions designed to meet current and future requirements.
The PADC Exhibition was the ideal forum for Legrand to showcase advanced data centre solutions and services to key visitors who included data centre focused decision makers, engineers and specifiers. This year’s event, delivered attendees from 29 countries, with a 40% growth in attendees year on year.
Legrand’s interactive stand displayed a broad range of specialised data centre products and also highlighted the local team’s important supply, design, installation and commission services.
Of particular interest during the show were Legrand’s XL3-S distribution boards, Linkeo racks, Linkeo HPE UPS and USystems rear door cooling. Also on display were Linkeo and Raritan PDUs and dry type cast resin transformers.
Highly efficient USystems rear door cooling systems, which have been developed especially for use on data centre/server cabinets, replace the traditional approach to data centre cooling and permit load removal of over 90 kW per cabinet.
Legrand’s new cooling system operates on a closed loop water circuit to ensure optimum thermal and energy performance, by removing heat generated by the active equipment, directly at source. An important benefit of this system is the capability to withstand low medium and higher density demands experienced in today’s data centre environments.
This means hot/cold aisles are no longer necessary, allowing users to capitalise on the use of actual real estate within the data hall. Legrand’s advanced cooling solution also gives the flexibility for alternate room layout and enhanced scalability possibilities.
A highlight for Legrand’s visitors were fun competitions held during the two day event. Prizes included coffee and genuine French macarons, as well as instant giveaways, like consumer UPS units, wireless chargers and Arteor with Netatmo Starter Kits. All coupons were put into a draw to with a golf experience for four people, with meal vouchers at The World of Golf.
To reinforce Legrand’s global footprint and international expertise, the local team was supported by colleagues from France, Holland, Mauritius, USA, UK and Equatorial Africa.
