[119024] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HE.net, Fremont-2 outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Wed Nov 4 17:21:21 2009
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:20:16 -0800
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Raphael Carrier <raphael.carrier@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Raphael Carrier
<raphael.carrier@gmail.com>wrote:
> Agreed batteries are unreliable, an alternative to battery based UPS
> are flywheel energy storage devices, they come either as an integrated
> solution with the diesel generator (i think cat offers such a package)
>
Yup, just ask 365 Main how reliable they are -
http://365main.com/status_update.html
I'm not saying that battery-based UPS's are better, but no matter what type
of system you look at you're going to find failures.
Scott
