[60805] in North American Network Operators' Group
AOL modem banks rely on local power
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Aug 16 11:43:19 2003
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:42:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
AOL's modem banks, which relay data over phone lines in New York City
and Detroit and other affected regions, had gone down after local
electricity grids blinked off Thursday evening.
AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham. "Most of the power at our modem banks rely
on local power supplies."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63923-2003Aug15.html
