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Re: San Francisco power outages imminent

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Wed Jun 14 20:57:34 2000

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From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:01:18 -0500
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Sez "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
> It'll be interesting to see what kind of outages this causes;
> for one thing, Sean's power may go out.

I'd be disappointed in him if it did.

> If power goes out in the NOC and there's nobody around to
> monitor it....

Thats what batteries and generators are for, right?  You did plan for
power outages at all of your mission-critical facilities, didn't you?

I wonder how many of us know the "major data center" that Joel Baker
referred to being on generators :)

S

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