Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>]

In NJ, Verizon, MFS, and Telcove all install batteries.

We put them on our UPS and Genset anyway, however.


On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, W.D.McKinney wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean () donelan com]
> > Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2005 04:02 AM
> > To: 'David Lesher'
> > Cc: 'nanog list'
> > Subject: Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, David Lesher wrote:
> > > Have any NANOG'ers [NANOGites? NANOGees?] run into this? Again, this
> > > is LEC owned, LEC maintained, equipment....Do you provide generator
> > > power for such in your space?
> >
> > Generally, the ILECs were the only ones that did this.  I've had multiple
> > CLECs (Brooks, MFS, WilTel, etc) install fibermux cabinets, none of them
> > provided any backup batteries by default.  They used local building power,
> > and we had to make sure they were connected to our backup generator.
> >
> > If you wanted to pay for it, some of the CLECs would add batteries.  But
> > it wasn't part of the base package.
>
> All the AT&T pops usually have nice battery and gen sets. That's what I like.
>
> Dee

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