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Re: Any Wave/Astound clue on the list?


From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:38:56 -0800

Negative, PTP fiber circuit.

-Mike

On Feb 22, 2023, at 19:37, Jay Hennigan <jay () west net> wrote:

On 2/22/23 19:20, Mike Lyon wrote:
Going on 12 hours on an outage that is due to a power outage somewhere. According to the Wave/Astound NOC, 
generator(s) were on the way 6 hours ago…
If you could hit me up offlist, i can give you the master ticket number.
I’m having a hard time figuring out why it takes 6 hours to get a generator up and running in Silicon Valley.

Is this a cable modem connection? Fiber-to-coax media converters and coaxial trunk amplifiers are fed from AC 
transformers on random poles or next to random underground pedestals. They need to roll a truck to the location(s) 
without power and basically set up a generator and plug the power injector into it. They typically use little Honda 
portables (which need refueling fairly often). Unless you're real close to the cable company's head-end there usually 
isn't any kind of automatic backup power.

When there's a local power outage near me in Oregon, Wave doesn't even bother with generators as typically their 
customers' power in the area is out too.

-- 
Jay Hennigan - jay () west net
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
503 897-8550 - WB6RDV



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