On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Christopher Masto wrote:
The question is, what gets power? Assuming you're the size of BBN, it becomes.. er.. "physically impractical" to power everything with a generator. I know when I was at RPI, though they had a room full of batteries (3-5 minutes of power), and a huge generator, it was only enough to power the telephone system and mainframe. In fact, it couldn't handle the water cooler for the mainframe. But the point is, even though (I hope) BBN isn't using a power-hungry mainframe, enough routers, switches, NOC workstations, etc. will eventually add up to more kilowatts than you can supply yourself. A decision has to be made as to what stays on and what doesn't.
I do not agree at all, the question is what do you want to PAY to keep up. When we started we just provided generator feed just of our gear. After we lost power for +12 hours and our AIR units were off we learned that everything must be on generator. They make LARGE generators, we have a 750KVA in Atlanta, and are installing a 1000KVA in Chicago. It can be done, just not cheep. Nathan Stratton President, CTO, NetRail,Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phone (888)NetRail NetRail, Inc. Fax (404)522-1939 230 Peachtree Suite 500 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Atlanta, GA 30303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. - Psalm 33:16