Re: Effects of Cold Front on Internet Infrastructure - U.S. Midwest

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

And here I always figured it was bespoke knit caps for all the packets in
cold-weather climes?
learn something new every day! (also, now I wonder what the people who told
me they were too busy knitting caps are ACTUALLY doing??)

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 8:55 AM Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net> wrote:

> Approximately 3 hrs ago we lost B-feed at Minneapolis Cologix.
>
> Apparently the local utility requested that they move one side to
> generator due to the weather and high-utilization, and the ATS failed.
>
> But we're up ...
>
>
> On 1/30/19 10:50 AM, Mel Beckman wrote:
> > Being a Minnesota native, I can tell you that while it is indeed cold,
> > this is nothing new i the Great White North :)  I am amaze a how
> > consistently the media overplays the severity of Midwest cold weather as
> > some kind of unique phenomenon. They amplify this by reporting the
> > wind-chill factor, which is the “what it feels like” equivalent in a
> > cold and windy environment. But equipment feels nothing, so windchill is
> > irrelevant.
> >
> > For example, Minneapolis is -20F, but the news media instead reports
> > “-60F wind chill”, which, while dramatic, is not meaningful for most
> > purposes. I grew up in Minnesota with -30F and lower quite common, and
> > we walked to school in those temperatures. You just have to dress well.
> > Minneapolis is paved with tunnels and heated skyways to eliminate most
> > outdoor walking downtown.
> >
> > As far as networks go, none of the ISPs I know of do anything different
> > than anywhere else in the country. Everyone has backup power. It’s
> > already common practice everywhere to exploit cooler winter ambient
> > temperatures to reduce HVAC requirements, so that’s not new either. But
> > it gets as hot in the Midwest in our summer as it is in SA for you now,
> > so everyone must still build out HVAC capacity to cover the hottest days.
> >
> >   -mel beckman
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2019, at 8:40 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu
> > <mailto:mark.tinka () seacom mu>> wrote:
> >
> > > For anyone running IP networks in the Midwest, are you having to do
> > > anything special to keep your networks up?
> > >
> > > For the data centres, is this cold front a chance to reduce air
> > > conditioning costs, or is it actually straining the infrastructure?
> > >
> > > I'm curious, from a +27-degree C summer's day here in Johannesburg.
> > >
> > > Mark.