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RE: Hot weather and power outages continue
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk () iname com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:01:03 -0500
Our small operation has outfitted our Calix shelves in the field with a minimum 8 hours of run time. If they would run low we would re-charge them with portable generators. We just consider it the cost of doing business. Frank -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Michael Loftis Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 4:20 PM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Hot weather and power outages continue --On July 24, 2006 2:22:26 AM -0400 Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
While its expected for individual customers to go down during power outages, usually because the customer does not have local backup power, it is less common for major web sites and co-location centers to experience downtime during power outages.
Except if you're in Qwest territory. Apparently they don't put any battery backup at their mini-DSLAMs and such. Every time we lose power, I'm still up, but the DSL signal goes away. Haven't checked dialtone, but I keep meaning too during the next outage. Now I know it's not exactly fair singling out Qwest, because I'll bet Verizon and others share the same thing, and I'm pretty sure it's just their ADSL service and not the voice service (I haven't checked though) it's still becoming more and more common that as an individual user your connection to the internet, unless you're paying for something other than ADSL or Cable, will be just as affected by local power outages.
Current thread:
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue, (continued)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Jim Popovitch (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Michael Loftis (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue William S. Duncanson (Jul 24)
- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Brandon Galbraith (Jul 24)
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- Re: Hot weather and power outages continue Daniel Senie (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Frank Bulk (Jul 24)
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- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Daniel Senie (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Frank Bulk (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue William S. Duncanson (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue david raistrick (Jul 26)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Christian Nielsen (Jul 24)
- RE: Hot weather and power outages continue Justin M. Streiner (Jul 24)