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I can't speak for BBN planet, but the power was out in Cambridge for a 2 hours. Anybody that can survive 2 hours running huge amounts of equipment must have their own power grid. :) Our little UPSes didn't survive... -Matthew At 07:39 AM 8/8/97 -0400, Eric Osborne wrote: >> >> >> The BBN Cambridge POP is "down and out" after a nearby manhole fire cut >> power to the building housing the POP. >> >> >> -Where is the generator backup? > > >It's my understanding that BBN had emergency generator backup, but that it was >insufficient to cover this outage. I'm pretty sure I saw that in one of >their ticket emails last night, although it's not in the official ticket >history. > > > >eric > > Matthew White Network Administrator Channel 1 Communications 617.864.0100
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