[4130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East still no generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sun Sep 8 01:49:52 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: stuart@pa.dec.com (Stephen Stuart)
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 01:42:51 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: alan@gi.net, perry@piermont.com, asp@partan.com, nathan@netrail.net,
nanog@merit.edu, stuart@pa.dec.com
In-Reply-To: <9609080524.AA22059@nsl-too.pa.dec.com> from "Stephen Stuart" at Sep 7, 96 10:24:35 pm
> > Certainly it would be reprehensible if the MAE-E core
> > infrastructure (that which MFS owns/runs) wasn't backed up.
> > However, I believe it is.
> >
> > I do not believe that it is the responsibility of MFS to provide
> > power to individual's equipment that is co-located at the site.
>
> If reliable power is not considered an essential part of facility
> infrastructure, how would you suggest that tenants get it? I think
DC power is provided at all MFS facilities I'm aware of; the rub is
that most of our gear is AC. Does anyone know of inverters that take
MFS's -48dc (with what I'm told is 'positive-ground' power) and convert
it to 110vac? If not, we're probably going to have to build our own
battery rack and/or stick a generator on the roof at one of our MFS
colo sites.
> that the incident at the WilTel POP in Santa Clara, CA, is sufficient
> to prove that having individual tenants each supply their own
> (typically small) UPS is a Bad Thing - the power was out long enough
> to drain them to zero, furthermore (this part I have second hand) some
> of them didn't take well to being flatlined like that. If everyone
> were left to solve that problem on their own ... well, imagine
> everyone jockeying to park their trailer-mounted portable generator
> near the door. Yow.
> Stephen
Avi
