[11691] in North American Network Operators' Group
[Fwd: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Giza)
Fri Aug 8 14:14:25 1997
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 14:14:52 -0400
From: Peter Giza <giza@adsmart.net>
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Peter E. Giza || Technical Consultant || ADSmart Corporation
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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 14:13:40 -0400
From: Peter Giza <giza@adsmart.net>
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Robert T. Nelson wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Christopher Masto wrote:
>
> > The question is, what gets power? Assuming you're the size of BBN, it
> > becomes.. er.. "physically impractical" to power everything with a
> > generator. I know when I was at RPI, though they had a room full of
> > batteries (3-5 minutes of power), and a huge generator, it was only
> > enough to power the telephone system and mainframe. In fact, it
> > couldn't handle the water cooler for the mainframe. But the point is,
> > even though (I hope) BBN isn't using a power-hungry mainframe, enough
> > routers, switches, NOC workstations, etc. will eventually add up to
> > more kilowatts than you can supply yourself. A decision has to be
> > made as to what stays on and what doesn't.
>
> If you're in a 24x7, customer-driven market, you should have either:
>
> a) enough go-juice (via fuel contractor) to go until the grid is on-line
>
> OR
>
> b) smaller NOCs.
>
> There is no excuse for a large player like GTE to lose power for any
> extended period off time. (I can understand a brief, reboot long, outage
> if something went awry, but hours? No sir.)
>
> Rob Nelson
> President, INTERNOC (tm)
> the internetwork operating company, inc.
> +1.210.299.INOC / rnelson@internoc.com
sigh... A goodly section of Cambridge lost power, a utility worker 42
years old with 6 children died, give it a break. The POPs affected
were legacy NEARNET (I believe) POPs which are primarily used today
for 56kbps links modulo the legacy connections with larger pipes.
These were **not** backbone POPs. Should they have had a better power
backup solution?, yeah. Did it affect BBNs' backbone?, thank God *no*
at least I'm thankful for that.
"Year of the Backhoe" and "Blackout Daze" #%^>
-pete
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