North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SLC power failures
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said: > > > As power is being restored throughout the midwestern part of the US, > one interesting feature showed up. A lot of telephone companies are > using Subcriber Loop Carriers (SLCs) to provide service. Some phone > companies are using local power sources with limited battery backup > for some SLCs. With the extended power outages, central offices with > generators maintained service; however, the remote equipment didn't > have local generators. This resulted in people losing their local > loops and telephone service as the power outages lasted for days. Yep... The theory is, the RBOC has portable generators to deploy as needed. There's a male plug on each to receive same. That works fine for local failures (truck hits power line..). But in a widespread debacle, say Hurricane Andrew, earthquake, ice storm, etc... they have nowhere near enough, nor can they get them deployed fast enough if they did. ("re: Some" above; I've never seen a generator installation at a SLC...) -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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