Re: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.

[Matthew White <mtw () channel1 com>]

I can't speak for BBN planet, but the power was out in Cambridge for a 2
hours.  
Anybody that can survive 2 hours running huge amounts of equipment must
have their own power grid. :)

Our little UPSes didn't survive...

-Matthew


At 07:39 AM 8/8/97 -0400, Eric Osborne wrote:
> > The BBN Cambridge POP is "down and out" after a nearby manhole fire cut 
> > power to the building housing the POP. 
> >
> >
> >      -Where is the generator backup?
>
>
> It's my understanding that BBN had emergency generator backup, but that it
was
> insufficient to cover this outage.  I'm pretty sure I saw that in one of 
> their ticket emails last night, although it's not in the official ticket 
> history.
>
>
>
> eric
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