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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MAE-East still no generator
oh, boy. let's make billions of dollars of battery backed up, dc powered facilities and force them to install ac backup. and all in the name of the all-mighty internet. telco facilites use dc power because it's the most efficient. dc powered equipment isn't that hard to come by. what's the dc power option on a cisco 75xx? about $350? Jeff Young [email protected] > To: Paul A Vixie <[email protected]> > cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: MAE-East still no generator > Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 12:19:46 -0400 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Content-Type: text > Content-Length: 418 > > > Paul A Vixie writes: > > > In other words, its silly for them not to have UPSed AC available. > > > > i agree with this but it can't be exclusive. that's why dec's palo alto > > facility has both AC and DC, each of which is UPSed and generatored. > > Both is fine. Lots of telco equipment likes DC. However, having > insufficient quantities of AC to meet the demand is what I think is > silly. Installing UPSes isn't hard. > > Perry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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