As someone else posted, many FTTH installations are centralized as much as possible to avoid having non-passive equipment in the plant, allowing for the practicality of onsite generators. That's what we do. But for those who have powered nodes in the field (distributed/tiered BPON or GPON configurations and cable plants), it's not realistic to keep them all powered. Despite what the DOT may be able to do. Frank -----Original Message----- From: wherrin@gmail.com [mailto:wherrin@gmail.com] On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:53 PM To: frnkblk@iname.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org; Seth Mattinen Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there were, not enough people to set them and give them their fluids.
Doesn't take a "good" generator to maintain a -48V battery string. Drop it off. Plug it in. Start it up. Task some folks on an 8 hour loop to keep the tanks topped off. If the DOT, not noted for its efficiency, can get the major traffic lights up and running on generators the next day, why can't Sprint, Cox and Verizon get their towers and fiber concentrators powered up? That's a condemnation worthy of the word: that your company performed worse in the storm recovery than the local department of transportation. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004