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Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Jan 10 12:03:56 2013

In-Reply-To: <50EEEF4B.8040001@verizon.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:03:19 -0500
To: Randy Whitney <randy.whitney@verizon.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Randy Whitney
<randy.whitney@verizon.com> wrote:
> Nothing beats POTS in a broad power outage scenario. Numerous power outages
> have taken down mobile service completely while the POTS lines stayed up as
> it carries its own power by design.

Carries it from somewhere that has to remain powered which typically
isn't a building with an automatic generator any more. Access to the
POTS lines of yesteryear is dwindling and not all that slowly.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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