[73880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 292 cellular towers out of service due to generator failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thornton)
Tue Sep 7 07:35:23 2004
From: Thornton <thornton-nanog@cierragroup.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0409061836360.23732@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 04:29:40 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 15:41, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Due to a generator failure, 292 Sprint wireless towers in Polk, Pasco,
> Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee, Hardee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties
> were disrupted. There is no estimated time for restoration of power
> to the Sprint switch serving the towers.
>
For that many towers to have power generator issues makes you wonder if
they had power generators to begin w/. Maybe they just had a few hours
worth of UPS power or something.
Thornton
Cierra Group
www.cierragroup.com
Efficient Licensing and Consulting
