[81331] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Coluccio)
Sun Jun 5 07:27:35 2005
From: Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com>
To: 'W.D.McKinney' <dee@akwireless.net>,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Reply-To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 06:05:10 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>>wasn't refering to their POPs. I was refering to the customer location.=
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For about a year I've been in discussions with a private cable operator (PC=
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has been knocking himself out trying to optimize an approach that would ena=
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him to provide generator backups in apartment buildings. He wants to match =
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incumbent's triple play offerings, and in particular, he saw the need to pr=
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uninterrupted voice service during commercial power outages not only as an=
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amenity that was needed to compete with the telco, but in order to qualify =
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lifeline service status, as well. The net effect of seeing what is happenin=
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the FTTP space has given him license now to begin considering options based=
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the use of batteries, as well. Lifeline qualification and delivering non-st=
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service availability are two separate, yet related, areas of consideration =
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regulatory persepective. I suppose its left to interpretation, but I'm won=
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if the ILECs, by their use of a battery-replacement policy may be breaking =
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Frank A. Coluccio=0D
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On Sat Jun 4 23:56 , Sean Donelan sent:=0D
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>On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, W.D.McKinney wrote:=0D
>> >If you wanted to pay for it, some of the CLECs would add batteries. Bu=
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>> >it wasn't part of the base package.=0D
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>> All the AT&T pops usually have nice battery and gen sets. That's what I =
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>I wasn't refering to their POPs. I was refering to the customer location.=
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>I've been wondering when the building codes will be updated. Currently=0D
>the building codes require backup generators for elevators in high-rise=0D
>buildings, but not for the telecommunications room in high-rise building=
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>(other than the fire alarm). Instead of pulling individual copper pairs=
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>from a POP to the high-rise building, a CLEC may install a fiber mux in=0D
>the basement and break-down individual circuits locally to copper. When=
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>the building looses power, so does the fiber mux.=0D
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>Of course, adding batteries to the fiber mux doesn't solve the problem of=
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>PBXs or even modern pay telephones in office buildings not working when=0D
>power fails.=0D
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>Who replaces the battery in your cell phone when it expires? How about=0D
>the battery in your cordless phone? Or the battery in your smoke alarm?=
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>If you don't want to do it yourself, for a fee you can hire someone else=
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>to do it for you. But then people would complain about the fee, and how=
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>they could do it themselves for less.=0D
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