What is this power switch called?

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I'm looking into getting something like the below image, but would like a common name to find the right size, color, price etc.

What do you call these "electrical-power-rack-front-switch-thingies":

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19" rackmount PDU.

Worth noting, they sell them in different types. Basic like you have there, where it's just a PDU with switches. They also sell them monitored and controlled. Monitored can mean you can see the amp draw of the whole thing, or sometimes individual outlets. Controlled often means it has a web UI and you can remotely flip switches. They need ethernet cables for those functions.

You can sometimes find fully monitored and controlled ones on ebay cheap. Just watch out for the ones that are 220v only.
 
Thanks. Found a few options.
Now to translate that into native languages to see if one can be bought locally.
 
19" rackmount PDU.

Worth noting, they sell them in different types. Basic like you have there, where it's just a PDU with switches. They also sell them monitored and controlled. Monitored can mean you can see the amp draw of the whole thing, or sometimes individual outlets. Controlled often means it has a web UI and you can remotely flip switches. They need ethernet cables for those functions.

You can sometimes find fully monitored and controlled ones on ebay cheap. Just watch out for the ones that are 220v only.
This is exactly what they are called - PDUs. Power Distribution Units. That one is a rackmount version, they sell non rackmount versions. If it comes with a battery, it'll get labelled instead as a UPS. Some PDUs are fancy and come with little digital readouts showing amperage and voltage and whatnot. You'll find them alongside the racks. So Dell, Blackbox, etc.
 

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