North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: > UPSes (and UPS batteries) do fail, sometimes in catastrophic ways. I > would not design any critical system on the assumption that any particular > component won't fail. High availability is about designing for failure. > Sometimes there is a long time between failures, other times they occur > early and often. The most annoying thing about UPSes is they fail at > exactly the time they are needed most. ok, what UPSes do telcos use (besides their monster battery arrays) -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
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