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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: EPOs in critical facilities
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Deepak Jain wrote: > > We have seen disgruntled Union members hit the EPO in data centers in > > Union-friendly cities. > > > > Not pretty outcome, no matter how much redundancy you have. > > I believe the Uptime Institute has some statistics showing EPO problems > are one of the top five reasons for critical facility outages. > > Almost no telco CO's have facility-wide EPOs. > > Equinix facilities do not have facility-wide EPOs. > > > Fire code is not compatible with Union rules. > > The fire code is your friend. Learn it, use it, follow it. It doesn't > always say what everything thinks it says. Following the code, you can > build a telecommunications facility without an EPO next to every door. > ---- Like anything, clue is hard to come by in consistent quantities. Yes, you can do a lot of things once you understand the code, but even a small (areawise) EPO causes lots of problems for whoever's equipment was hit. If the reason was a disgruntled Union worker, so much's the pity. DJ
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