[11699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Fri Aug 8 14:42:13 1997
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:19:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Brian Tackett <cym@acrux.net>
cc: Matthew White <mtw@channel1.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.970808100211.20431A-100000@pluto>
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Brian Tackett wrote:
> Our solution to this was pretty simple: A gasoline generator and some
> heavy-duty cable :) No idea how that would scale (probably poorly), but at
> least it enabled us to get core services back online.
Try that with 480 volts 3 phase where you need 4 500 MCM cables for each
phase. The nice thing is you can walk in the generator in winter to stay
warm.
Nathan Stratton President, CTO, NetRail,Inc.
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