[25158] in North American Network Operators' Group
Fwd: Re: MCI/Worldcom fiber cut in NY?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Sep 18 12:17:12 1999
Date: 18 Sep 1999 09:10:51 -0700
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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"Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh@concentric.net> writes:
>Hmm most wise builders have a 3 to 4 foot high
>concrete fuel cell mount pedestal and generator mount
>type pedestal now days, to help prevent some of these
>problems, especially at critical data centers.
Perhaps. but even the best layed plans can get scuttled. And in
this case 3 to 4 feet would not have been enough. Many ATM cash
machines are off-line all over the country because EDS's data
center in New Jersey went down due to power failures and flooding.
If there was a data center that met the description of a "bunker"
that was it.
