The first thing that I need to clarify is what the power strip in the rack or cabinet is called? There is no single industry standard term, and the term used the most by IT technicians ("PDU") is not the best term to use. The reason PDU was not a great term to begin using for the power strip is because the electrical distribution system already had a PDU defined. The electrical distribution in a data center will sometimes have a transformer downstream from the UPS, either a v