Re: MAE-East still no generator

["Jeff Young" <young () mci net>]

oh, boy.

let's make billions of dollars of battery backed up, dc powered
facilities and force them to install ac backup.  and all in the 
name of the all-mighty internet.  

telco facilites use dc power because it's the most efficient.
dc powered equipment isn't that hard to come by.  what's the
dc power option on a cisco 75xx?  about $350?

Jeff Young
young () mci net

> To: Paul A Vixie <vixie () wisdom home vix com>
> cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: MAE-East still no generator 
> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 12:19:46 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com>
> Sender: owner-nanog () merit edu
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> Paul A Vixie writes:
> > > In other words, its silly for them not to have UPSed AC available.
> >
> > i agree with this but it can't be exclusive.  that's why dec's palo alto
> > facility has both AC and DC, each of which is UPSed and generatored.
>
> Both is fine. Lots of telco equipment likes DC. However, having
> insufficient quantities of AC to meet the demand is what I think is
> silly. Installing UPSes isn't hard.
>
> Perry


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