North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next |
Date Index |
Thread Index |
Author Index |
Historical
RE: Hot weather and power outages continue
- From: Frank Bulk
- Date: Mon Jul 24 21:58:41 2006
Depending on the state you live in, the PUC generally
requires 4 to 8 hours of dialtone if it's generated from the C.O. Dialtone
generated from SLC may not be explicitly covered under the
rules.
Regards,
Frank
At 06:26 PM 7/24/2006, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
While hardwired (fiber/coax/copper)
aggregation points usually don't have backup power on them, most cellular
towers have either batteries or generators for backup power,
correct?
We see good cable modem connectivity during power
outages. Batteries must still be good in the HFC nodes in our area. Verizon POTS
service, on the other hand, dies when the power does. The batteries in their SLC
units are toast. I've got the local police chief off conversing with the Verizon
E911 folks to find out why it's OK to have no 911 service to a large part of
town when there's no power (Verizon repair kept trying to tell me it must be my
equipment, despite testing at the network interface).
I am looking at
moving telephone services off to Comcast or VOIP because they're more reliable
than Verizon is, in my particular neighborhood.
-brandon
On 7/24/06,
William S. Duncanson <[email protected] >
wrote:
- Indeed, my RoadRunner connection is the same way. All of my stuff
stays up,
- but "teh Interweb is broken." I'm guessing that they (DSL/CableCo's)
find it
- too cost-prohibitive to roll out UPSes to the customer aggregation
points.
- Suprisingly, my cable TV goes out as well when the power goes, so it
might
- just be more than the CMTS that's going out.
- -----Original Message-----
- From: [email protected]
[
mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
- Michael Loftis
- Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 16:20
- To: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Hot weather and power outages continue
- --On July 24, 2006 2:22:26 AM -0400 Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote:
- > While its expected for individual customers to go down during
power
- > outages, usually because the customer does not have local
backup
- > power, it is less common for major web sites and co-location
centers
- > to experience downtime during power outages.
- Except if you're in Qwest territory. Apparently they don't put any
battery
- backup at their mini-DSLAMs and such. Every time we lose power,
I'm still
- up, but the DSL signal goes away. Haven't checked dialtone, but I
keep
- meaning too during the next outage.
- Now I know it's not exactly fair singling out Qwest, because I'll bet
- Verizon and others share the same thing, and I'm pretty sure it's just
their
- ADSL service and not the voice service (I haven't checked though)
it's
- still becoming more and more common that as an individual user your
- connection to the internet, unless you're paying for something other
than
- ADSL or Cable, will be just as affected by local power
outages.
--
Brandon Galbraith
Email: [email protected]
AIM:
brandong00
Voice: 630.400.6992
"A true pirate starts drinking before the
sun hits the yard-arm. Yarrrr. --thelost"
|