[11710] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonah Yokubaitis)
Fri Aug 8 17:06:06 1997
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:59:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jonah Yokubaitis <barron@texas.net>
To: Matthew White <mtw@channel1.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970808090636.032b43b0@pop.channel1.com>
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Matthew White wrote:
|
|I can't speak for BBN planet, but the power was out in Cambridge for a 2
|hours.
|Anybody that can survive 2 hours running huge amounts of equipment must
|have their own power grid. :)
|
|Our little UPSes didn't survive...
Any major player in any telecom market that doesn't have at _least_
4hours of battery plant is not worth its salt.
-48VDC setups that are COMMON among carriers should be an absolute
necessity for any large ISP/NSP as well.
BBN not sizing their generator right was another huge mistake. You
have to wonder who is asleep at the switch over there.
Jonah
