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Re: Ashburn MAE facility

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Fri Sep 08 15:19:00 2000 
Traditionally telco facilities do not provide no-break AC power.  If you
want reliable power in a carrier style facility you need to use DC power,
and dual-feed DC powered equipment.

I do not think this is a change from the existing MAE facilities.  I don't
think MFS provides no-break AC power in either the existing gallows road
or south market MAE's.

On Fri, 08 September 2000, Deepak Jain wrote:
> But they provide up to 4 hrs of DC power in the same paragraph. They are
> specifically segregating against AC power which I find interesting.
> 
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Charles Scott wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Deepak Jain wrote:
> > > "In addition, backup generators will provide power in case of an AC
> > > power failure, however, AC backup is not guaranteed and will not be
> > > uninterrupted."
> > > 
> > > I am hoping this is someone's clerical error.