[11681] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Fri Aug 8 10:05:06 1997
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
To: osborne@terra.net (Eric Osborne)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:59:44 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199708081139.HAA24453@foobar.terra.net> from "Eric Osborne" at Aug 8, 97 07:39:14 am
> >
> >
> > 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.
It's my understanding that a battery supply that lasts long enough to get
the emergency generator running, along with a fuel contractor to keep the
generator topped off, can last over rather long outages.
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