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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report
I just wanted to clarify something, I got a few email messages from people who said I was one of the nuts who is saying the world would fall apart Y2K, I think everything will work out. I do not recommend anyone fill baggies full of dried food, buy a gun, or build a house underground. I think we will get though this ok. I was just trying to point out that some of the power systems in the US are very fragile and that it does not take a lot to bring the system down. My recommendation on having your generator ready is something all ISPs should do no matter what year it is. I do think we will have power outages, but the systems WILL come back online and thinks WILL get back to normal. This is a operational issue and we need to make sure our systems are protected. -- Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec ><> Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting www.robotics.net [email protected] On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Nathan Stratton wrote: > I would agree, that is why I am worried about year 2K power issues. I > think for the most part everything is ok with most of the larger > providers, but I have talked to several smaller energy providers who will > not be ready for y2k. The systems that may/will (depending on who you talk > to) fail are normally not that big of a deal to restart after they trip. > The problem is that this could cause a cascading failure that would take > down most of the national grid. When you have something like that happen > it is not that easy to bring everything back on-line. As far as I know we > have never had the entire national grid fail, we have had large > sections (say New York, 13 north western states, etc.) of the grid fail > because of cascading failures that were caused by very small problems. > > If you are a ISP, you better have your generators ready, I think you are > going to need to use them. > > -- > Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec > ><> > Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting > www.robotics.net [email protected]
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