[51200] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: EPOs in critical facilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Aug 21 19:27:10 2002
Reply-To: <deepak@ai.net>
From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:22:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0208211708210.27981-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Deepak Jain wrote:
> > We have seen disgruntled Union members hit the EPO in data centers in
> > Union-friendly cities.
> >
> > Not pretty outcome, no matter how much redundancy you have.
>
> I believe the Uptime Institute has some statistics showing EPO problems
> are one of the top five reasons for critical facility outages.
>
> Almost no telco CO's have facility-wide EPOs.
>
> Equinix facilities do not have facility-wide EPOs.
>
> > Fire code is not compatible with Union rules.
>
> The fire code is your friend. Learn it, use it, follow it. It doesn't
> always say what everything thinks it says. Following the code, you can
> build a telecommunications facility without an EPO next to every door.
>
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Like anything, clue is hard to come by in consistent quantities. Yes, you
can do a lot of things once you understand the code, but even a small
(areawise) EPO causes lots of problems for whoever's equipment was hit.
If the reason was a disgruntled Union worker, so much's the pity.
DJ
