Re: MAE-East still no generator

[Nathan Stratton <nathan () netrail net>]

On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Andrew Partan wrote:

> > Check out the nice graph of MAE-East for that last 5 days. When are they
> > going to get a generator installed? Why can't you pay for a generator when
> > you are charging +30 people $5,700 a month?
>
> I was over at MAE-East installing some equipment sometime early
> this summer & I was talking with some MFS folks.  They were looking
> at the AC powered gear that I was installing & were wondering why
> I did not do DC - they said that there was *lots* of DC capacity
> (all battery backed) at MAE-East.  Last week I was over there again
> & poked around.  I think that I only saw *two* folks that were
> using DC - everyone else was on AC.
>
> So what are you using?  AC or DC?  If you are not on DC, I would
> switch.  Maybe you would have better luck.

The lame extended NetEdge thing, I am moving to a 7505 with and Cascade
9000 with a OC3c to my POP in Arlington. When I do that I will be DC. The
DC is all battery backed, but it is not on a generator and has gone down
many times. 

> As far as uptime goes - some folks have not seen any outages -
> Digex has been up for 3+ weeks; ICM for 2+ weeks.  It does look
> like all BGP sessions reset 2days9hours ago.
>       --asp () partan com (Andrew Partan)


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