[81328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Coluccio)
Sun Jun 5 00:34:22 2005
From: Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Reply-To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 23:09:40 -0500
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
See UTOPIA's Standby Power RFB <sic>:=0D
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Invitation to submit sealed bids for stationary and transportable generator=
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RFB 2005GEN-004 June 2, 2005=0D
http://www.utopianet.org/contracts/RFPs/pdfs/RFB_2005GEN-004.pdf=0D
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Frank A. Coluccio=0D
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On Sat Jun 4 23:02 , Sean Donelan sent:=0D
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>On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, David Lesher wrote:=0D
>> Have any NANOG'ers [NANOGites? NANOGees?] run into this? Again, this=0D
>> is LEC owned, LEC maintained, equipment....Do you provide generator=0D
>> power for such in your space?=0D
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>Generally, the ILECs were the only ones that did this. I've had multiple=
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>CLECs (Brooks, MFS, WilTel, etc) install fibermux cabinets, none of them=
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>provided any backup batteries by default. They used local building power,=
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>and we had to make sure they were connected to our backup generator.=0D
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>If you wanted to pay for it, some of the CLECs would add batteries. But=
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>it wasn't part of the base package.=0D
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