[5231] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kozowski)
Fri Oct 11 23:25:04 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:19:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Kozowski <kozowski@structured.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
>This reminds me of a passage from Bruce Sterling's _The Hacker Crackdown_.
>
> Parked outside the back is a power-generation truck. The generator
> strikes me as rather anomalous. Don't they already have their own
> generators in this eight-story monster? Then the suspicion strikes
> me that NYNEX must have heard of the September 17 AT&T
> power-outage which crashed New York City. Belt-and-suspenders,
> this generator. Very telco.
>
>michael
The Portland, OR AT&T POP has _two_ trailer (40') mounted generators in
the parking lot, in addition to a fixed mount generator. Typically,
generators that large are in the 2000-5000kw capacity.
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