[4113] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East still no generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Sat Sep 7 22:16:51 1996
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 22:11:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609080127.VAA10367@home.partan.com>
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Andrew Partan wrote:
> > Check out the nice graph of MAE-East for that last 5 days. When are they
> > going to get a generator installed? Why can't you pay for a generator when
> > you are charging +30 people $5,700 a month?
>
> I was over at MAE-East installing some equipment sometime early
> this summer & I was talking with some MFS folks. They were looking
> at the AC powered gear that I was installing & were wondering why
> I did not do DC - they said that there was *lots* of DC capacity
> (all battery backed) at MAE-East. Last week I was over there again
> & poked around. I think that I only saw *two* folks that were
> using DC - everyone else was on AC.
>
> So what are you using? AC or DC? If you are not on DC, I would
> switch. Maybe you would have better luck.
The lame extended NetEdge thing, I am moving to a 7505 with and Cascade
9000 with a OC3c to my POP in Arlington. When I do that I will be DC. The
DC is all battery backed, but it is not on a generator and has gone down
many times.
> As far as uptime goes - some folks have not seen any outages -
> Digex has been up for 3+ weeks; ICM for 2+ weeks. It does look
> like all BGP sessions reset 2days9hours ago.
> --asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)
>
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
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