I just wanted to clarify something, I got a few email messages from people who said I was one of the nuts who is saying the world would fall apart Y2K, I think everything will work out. I do not recommend anyone fill baggies full of dried food, buy a gun, or build a house underground. I think we will get though this ok. I was just trying to point out that some of the power systems in the US are very fragile and that it does not take a lot to bring the system down. My recommendation on having your generator ready is something all ISPs should do no matter what year it is. I do think we will have power outages, but the systems WILL come back online and thinks WILL get back to normal. This is a operational issue and we need to make sure our systems are protected. -- Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec
<> Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting www.robotics.net nathan@robotics.net
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Nathan Stratton wrote:
I would agree, that is why I am worried about year 2K power issues. I think for the most part everything is ok with most of the larger providers, but I have talked to several smaller energy providers who will not be ready for y2k. The systems that may/will (depending on who you talk to) fail are normally not that big of a deal to restart after they trip. The problem is that this could cause a cascading failure that would take down most of the national grid. When you have something like that happen it is not that easy to bring everything back on-line. As far as I know we have never had the entire national grid fail, we have had large sections (say New York, 13 north western states, etc.) of the grid fail because of cascading failures that were caused by very small problems.
If you are a ISP, you better have your generators ready, I think you are going to need to use them.
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<> Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting www.robotics.net nathan@robotics.net