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-- --/ Peter E. Giza || Technical Consultant || ADSmart Corporation fone 508.684.3609 || phax 508.684.3618 || page 800.632.1746 || http://www.adsmart.net /-- --- Begin Message ---Robert T. Nelson wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Christopher Masto wrote: > > > The question is, what gets power? Assuming you're the size of BBN, it > > becomes.. er.. "physically impractical" to power everything with a > > generator. I know when I was at RPI, though they had a room full of > > batteries (3-5 minutes of power), and a huge generator, it was only > > enough to power the telephone system and mainframe. In fact, it > > couldn't handle the water cooler for the mainframe. But the point is, > > even though (I hope) BBN isn't using a power-hungry mainframe, enough > > routers, switches, NOC workstations, etc. will eventually add up to > > more kilowatts than you can supply yourself. A decision has to be > > made as to what stays on and what doesn't. > > If you're in a 24x7, customer-driven market, you should have either: > > a) enough go-juice (via fuel contractor) to go until the grid is on-line > > OR > > b) smaller NOCs. > > There is no excuse for a large player like GTE to lose power for any > extended period off time. (I can understand a brief, reboot long, outage > if something went awry, but hours? No sir.) > > Rob Nelson > President, INTERNOC (tm) > the internetwork operating company, inc. > +1.210.299.INOC / [email protected] sigh... A goodly section of Cambridge lost power, a utility worker 42 years old with 6 children died, give it a break. The POPs affected were legacy NEARNET (I believe) POPs which are primarily used today for 56kbps links modulo the legacy connections with larger pipes. These were **not** backbone POPs. Should they have had a better power backup solution?, yeah. Did it affect BBNs' backbone?, thank God *no* at least I'm thankful for that. "Year of the Backhoe" and "Blackout Daze" #%^> -pete -- --/ Peter E. Giza || Technical Consultant || ADSmart Corporation fone 508.684.3609 || phax 508.684.3618 || page 800.632.1746 || http://www.adsmart.net /----- End Message ---
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