Andrew Partan writes:
I was over at MAE-East installing some equipment sometime early this summer & I was talking with some MFS folks. They were looking at the AC powered gear that I was installing & were wondering why I did not do DC - they said that there was *lots* of DC capacity (all battery backed) at MAE-East. Last week I was over there again & poked around. I think that I only saw *two* folks that were using DC - everyone else was on AC.
So what are you using? AC or DC? If you are not on DC, I would switch. Maybe you would have better luck.
I believe that most of the country switched from direct to alternating current late in the last century, and that by now it should be expected that most commercial equipment in the world will either operate at 120VAC or 220VAC, and not on direct current. I realize that the phone world that MFS is part of operates differently, but this is networking equipment we are talking about, not phone switches, and UPSes are very old tech at this point. In other words, its silly for them not to have UPSed AC available. Perry