[4186] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East still no generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Young)
Sun Sep 8 21:35:17 1996
To: perry@piermont.com
cc: Paul A Vixie <vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Sep 1996 12:19:46 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 21:31:42 -0400
From: "Jeff Young" <young@mci.net>
oh, boy.
let's make billions of dollars of battery backed up, dc powered
facilities and force them to install ac backup. and all in the
name of the all-mighty internet.
telco facilites use dc power because it's the most efficient.
dc powered equipment isn't that hard to come by. what's the
dc power option on a cisco 75xx? about $350?
Jeff Young
young@mci.net
> To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com>
> cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: MAE-East still no generator
> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 12:19:46 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> Paul A Vixie writes:
> > > In other words, its silly for them not to have UPSed AC available.
> >
> > i agree with this but it can't be exclusive. that's why dec's palo alto
> > facility has both AC and DC, each of which is UPSed and generatored.
>
> Both is fine. Lots of telco equipment likes DC. However, having
> insufficient quantities of AC to meet the demand is what I think is
> silly. Installing UPSes isn't hard.
>
> Perry
