[109692] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Telecom Collapse?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Thu Dec 4 11:32:01 2008
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:31:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20081204155349.GB827386@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> The AT&T (BellSouth) remotes around here installed in the last 10 years
> or so typically have natural gas generators installed, and the COs have
> a pair of generators for redundancy. Even many of the cell towers have
> generators. The telco infrastructure is pretty well backed up (I don't
> know how well tested any of it is of course).
>=20
> On the other hand, it appears that the cable infrastructure doesn't even
> all have batteries (I know some people whose cable voice and data
> services blink with the power).
Yes. In my neck of the woods, there have been a countable number of times i=
n the last few years where when you pick up Vzn POTS, you don't get dial to=
ne. Cellular tends to work well. At least, when combined with Glock, I feel=
safe enough to rely on it for home safety issue (E911).
