On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:56:34AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
I've been wondering when the building codes will be updated. Currently the building codes require backup generators for elevators in high-rise buildings, but not for the telecommunications room in high-rise building (other than the fire alarm). Instead of pulling individual copper pairs from a POP to the high-rise building, a CLEC may install a fiber mux in the basement and break-down individual circuits locally to copper. When the building looses power, so does the fiber mux.
Of course, adding batteries to the fiber mux doesn't solve the problem of PBXs or even modern pay telephones in office buildings not working when power fails.
Who replaces the battery in your cell phone when it expires? How about the battery in your cordless phone? Or the battery in your smoke alarm?
If you don't want to do it yourself, for a fee you can hire someone else to do it for you. But then people would complain about the fee, and how they could do it themselves for less.
Well, this seems akin to the old "FOB Point" conversation in wholesale and retail sales: "what is the service point?" Or, more clearly: "whose responsibility it is to make sure that the service is available at the service point?" It seems a contractual issue, to me, in those cases where it's not a regulatory one. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me