North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Maintenance modems and power failures
>Most network providers are aware of the secret hiding in most of our >POPs. Those little sporters and courier modems stuffed into a rack >somewhere plugged into the nearest available outlet, as the only >out-of-band access. Has anyone come up with a solution for powering >these forgotten pieces of equipment, which doesn't cost more than >the modem itself? > >At first you might think it makes sense to power them off the UPS >which is powering the rest of your equipment. The only problem is >if you are using the maintenance modem to monitor your UPS. This >is just one of those things which has bugged me for a few years, but >I still haven't come up with a solution I really like. > Get two modems. POTS ---- Modem 0 ---- Modem 1 | | UPS AC Utility AC This only really makes sense if you have your terminal server w/ redundant power, one utility AC and the other UPS AC. Austin
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