[81346] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Jun 6 11:38:54 2005
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:38:08 -0400
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Sean Donelan
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 7:56 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
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> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> > If your data center has an adequate DC plant, will the=20
> carriers insist
> > on installing their own batteries and rectifiers? And how=20
> many of them
> > have redundant supplies to take advantage of an A and B=20
> feed from you?
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> If you are willing to sign some liability waivers, and maybe pay some
> special construction charges, I've found most ILECs are willing to use
> your plant. =20
Not in provider/colo land. The LEC's will and do pay for=20
rack space. Most will gladly use protected power to their=20
rectifiers and not use battery if offerred.=20
> But remember, the ILEC is stuck with servicing=20
> that building
> long after you may disappear. =20
Which is a good reason not to allow any dependancies
out of their control. This is in the enterprises=20
interest. Co mingling with the enterprise is a very
bad idea.
-M<
