[134144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sun Dec 26 23:08:19 2010
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:07:20 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Once upon a time, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> said:
> You are likely already at the mercy of some local hut for your
> dialtone. Very few things home run to the co these days. It's unlikely
> any hut has more than 24 hours of battery.
The AT&T (formerly BellSouth) cabinets around here mostly have natural
gas generators included, so they almost never go out. The cable
companies, on the other hand, might have enough battery to last through
a brownout.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
