[117004] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Aug 28 15:37:13 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Luke Marrott <luke.marrott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4a9edb810908281217q5d34b04q189d588bf42e410@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:36:24 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 28, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Luke Marrott wrote:
> One thing that I think service providers take into account is that
> while
> many people still have phones that do not have their own power source,
> battery backups for home computers aren't that common as a general
> rule.
> There is no need to have battery backup for internet services if the
> computer doesn't have power.
Most people I know use laptops as their primary computers. These most
definitely have battery backup.
Regards
Marshall
>
> :Luke
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Walter Keen <walter.keen@rainierconnect.net
>> wrote:
>
>> I agree, while the majority of government and service providers have
>> the opinion that POTS is a lifeline service, and ethernet is not, I
>> disagree. I know the service provider I work for is starting to
>> change
>> their views on this, but it will take time for the general
>> populous of
>> managers, etc throughout the nation to realize this.
>> William Herrin wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Carlos Alcantar[1]<carlos@race.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The dropping of internet is done on purpose to preserve the battery
>> for
>> the pots when ac power is lost. This is an actual setting in just
>> about
>> all manufacturers of ftth equipment. You'll probably have a hard
>> time
>> to get them to change the profile on the equipment tho but it is
>> possible.
>>
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> I realize why it's done. I merely point out that there are common
>> configurations in which the having the FTTH NID power the POTS
>> circuitry and drop the Internet circuitry is exactly the opposite of
>> correct. Where instead of preserving access to emergency responders,
>> it is intentionally designed to cut that access.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bill Herrin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Walter Keen
>> Network Technician
>> Rainier Connect
>> (o) 360-832-4024
>> (c) 253-302-0194
>>
>> References
>>
>> 1. mailto:carlos@race.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> :Luke Marrott
>
