[5321] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick J. Chicas)
Tue Oct 15 02:20:27 1996
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:13:34 -1000 (HST)
From: "Patrick J. Chicas" <pjc@off-road.com>
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961014230351.30952B-100000@netrail.net>
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Nathan Stratton wrote:
Greetings
> On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Patrick J. Chicas wrote:
> > I don't understand how they could have 3 different power systems fail
> > without a serious operations procedural error.
>
> They did not, the transfer switch did.
I think you have missed my point. By the RISKS message it appears that BBN
relied blindly on whatever power solution Stanford had in place. THis, is
an operational failure.
> > In 18 years of telecom management I have never seen a "Transfer Switch" as
> > a component failure. I have seen quite a few overloaded battery strings,
> > and UPS's backed by rusty generators.
>
> Well this is one, and I have only been on this planet 20 years and have
> seen 2 be the failure.
I have seen automatic tranfer mechanisms fail but, never the manual
portion of the switch.
Regards
Patrick J. Chicas
Email: pjc@unix.off-road.com
URL: http://www.Off-Road.com
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