North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:56:34AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > I've been wondering when the building codes will be updated. Currently > the building codes require backup generators for elevators in high-rise > buildings, but not for the telecommunications room in high-rise building > (other than the fire alarm). Instead of pulling individual copper pairs > from a POP to the high-rise building, a CLEC may install a fiber mux in > the basement and break-down individual circuits locally to copper. When > the building looses power, so does the fiber mux. > > Of course, adding batteries to the fiber mux doesn't solve the problem of > PBXs or even modern pay telephones in office buildings not working when > power fails. > > Who replaces the battery in your cell phone when it expires? How about > the battery in your cordless phone? Or the battery in your smoke alarm? > > If you don't want to do it yourself, for a fee you can hire someone else > to do it for you. But then people would complain about the fee, and how > they could do it themselves for less. Well, this seems akin to the old "FOB Point" conversation in wholesale and retail sales: "what is the service point?" Or, more clearly: "whose responsibility it is to make sure that the service is available at the service point?" It seems a contractual issue, to me, in those cases where it's not a regulatory one. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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