[117008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Aug 28 16:00:34 2009
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:57:41 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Walter Keen <walter.keen@rainierconnect.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A982BAB.4050707@rainierconnect.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Walter Keen 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.
Since no one is mentioning it, the batteries often can only power POTS
for 8 hours. If ethernet is left on, it drastically drops the runtime.
This is not acceptable, yet I haven't seen a good setup that can provide
8+ hours for both.
Of course, it's been a non-issue for me. We run weeks without power just
fine with FTTC.
Jack
