[81374] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Loftis)
Tue Jun 7 22:05:55 2005
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:05:23 -0600
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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--On June 5, 2005 8:11:41 PM -0700 Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> wrote:
> The corollary to this question:
>
> If your data center has an adequate DC plant, will the carriers insist
> on installing their own batteries and rectifiers? And how many of them
> have redundant supplies to take advantage of an A and B feed from you?
There's no typical response. Here in QWest territory they drop their own
cabinet and pull AC power for their own rectifiers and battery string
inside the cabinet. (I helped lump the freaking batteries oy...)
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