[159472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jan 11 13:26:58 2013
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:26:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
> 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.
Oh, I dunno, Bill. Sure there are lots more RSUs than there used to be,
but at least it's not all *that* hard to tell if you're connected to one.
Much easier than, say, finding out if both sides of your loop have been
groomed into the same cable.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
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