[119028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HE.net, Fremont-2 outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Wed Nov 4 17:59:36 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: scott@doc.net.au (Scott Howard)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:56:19 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <f1dedf9c0911041420k4ae89299o76d553ad2015a7c0@mail.gmail.com>
from "Scott Howard" at Nov 04, 2009 02:20:16 PM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
I would point out that my cursory review of the document linked above
leaves a very positive impression. I don't know the actual details well
enough to know if there is any reason to doubt the document...
I would, however, tend to trust a vendor who disclosed events in this
manner. Even the best systems can fail. How a failure is handled is
in many ways the more important factor; being transparent about it is
good for confidence.
Best to plan for the occasional issue.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
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