[11679] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew White)
Fri Aug 8 09:20:31 1997
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 09:06:36 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Matthew White <mtw@channel1.com>
In-Reply-To: <199708081139.HAA24453@foobar.terra.net>
I can't speak for BBN planet, but the power was out in Cambridge for a 2
hours.
Anybody that can survive 2 hours running huge amounts of equipment must
have their own power grid. :)
Our little UPSes didn't survive...
-Matthew
At 07:39 AM 8/8/97 -0400, Eric Osborne wrote:
>>
>>
>> The BBN Cambridge POP is "down and out" after a nearby manhole fire cut
>> power to the building housing the POP.
>>
>>
>> -Where is the generator backup?
>
>
>It's my understanding that BBN had emergency generator backup, but that it
was
>insufficient to cover this outage. I'm pretty sure I saw that in one of
>their ticket emails last night, although it's not in the official ticket
>history.
>
>
>
>eric
>
>
Matthew White
Network Administrator
Channel 1 Communications
617.864.0100
