June 24, 2025
With downtime costs exceeding $100,000, enterprises must maintain operations even during routine maintenance, turning planned downtime into a critical challenge.
As digital infrastructure grows more complex, outage impacts are scaling proportionally. According to Uptime Institute's 2025 survey, most recent significant outages exceeded $100,000. These findings position routine power maintenance as a strategic variable rather than an operational afterthought.
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units require periodic maintenance, upgrades, or replacement. Without a built-in maintenance bypass switch, organizations must either de-energize connected equipment during these procedures or install a standalone bypass switch. The former risks operational and financial losses; the latter consumes valuable cabinet or floor space—a significant constraint in dense IT environments, modular data centers, or facilities with space limitations.
Space as an operational priority
Modern infrastructure designs prioritize compact, scalable solutions to maximize efficiency. External bypass switches, while functional, introduce spatial inefficiencies: they require separate enclosures, cabling, and installation labor, increasing both footprint and complexity. This creates friction in environments where space directly correlates with capacity, such as edge computing sites or urban colocation facilities.