[81326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W.D.McKinney)
Sun Jun 5 00:07:36 2005
From: "W.D.McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 04:07:48 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com]
>Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2005 04:02 AM
>To: 'David Lesher'
>Cc: 'nanog list'
>Subject: Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
>
>
>On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, David Lesher wrote:
>> Have any NANOG'ers [NANOGites? NANOGees?] run into this? Again, this
>> is LEC owned, LEC maintained, equipment....Do you provide generator
>> power for such in your space?
>
>Generally, the ILECs were the only ones that did this. I've had multiple
>CLECs (Brooks, MFS, WilTel, etc) install fibermux cabinets, none of them
>provided any backup batteries by default. They used local building power,
>and we had to make sure they were connected to our backup generator.
>
>If you wanted to pay for it, some of the CLECs would add batteries. But
>it wasn't part of the base package.
>
All the AT&T pops usually have nice battery and gen sets. That's what I like.
Dee