Re: BBN outage

["Patrick J. Chicas" <pjc () off-road com>]

On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Nathan Stratton wrote:

Greetings

> On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Patrick J. Chicas wrote:

> > I don't understand how they could have 3 different power systems fail
> > without a serious operations procedural error.
>
> They did not, the transfer switch did.

I think you have missed my point. By the RISKS message it appears that BBN
relied blindly on whatever power solution Stanford had in place. THis, is
an operational failure.

> > In 18 years of telecom management I have never seen a "Transfer Switch" as
> > a component failure. I have seen quite a few overloaded battery strings,
> > and UPS's backed by rusty generators.
>
> Well this is one, and I have only been on this planet 20 years and have
> seen 2 be the failure.

I have seen automatic tranfer mechanisms fail but, never the manual
portion of the switch.

Regards

 Patrick J. Chicas
 Email: pjc () unix off-road com
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