RE: East Coast outage? (remote power -- as in remote huts)
Although our main office here has generator power, what do all the intermediary unmanaged network sites typically have for DC power along the way ? One of my local fibre providers told me that the remote hut we are off of only will last until about 9:30pm tonight and then bye bye. Is that typical to have 6hrs battery ? I am sure its all over the map from provider to provider, but does anyone know what Bell Canada (my other local loop provider) typical aims for in terms of battery power for remote huts ? ---Mike At 05:41 PM 14/08/2003 -0400, Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta) wrote:
Latest is the failure at 14th street was the original failure and the rest cascaded from there.
-d
-----Original Message----- From: up@3.am [mailto:up@3.am] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:51 PM To: Aaron D. Britt Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: East Coast outage?
From CNN:
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck several large cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.
Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Ottawa, Ontario. The power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m.
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no word on the cause(s), but a ConEd transformer on East 14th street was said to be on fine...not sure how that could affect other cities, though...
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Aaron D. Britt wrote:
I just lost 80 circuits (Voice and Data), across multiple states on the East Coast in the last 10 minutes. Is there a Northeast power outage or fiber cut that anyone knows about?
Any info would be appreciated...
-Aaron
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
Although our main office here has generator power, what do all the intermediary unmanaged network sites typically have for DC power along the way ? One of my local fibre providers told me that the remote hut we are off of only will last until about 9:30pm tonight and then bye bye. Is that typical to have 6hrs battery ? I am sure its all over the map from provider to provider, but does anyone know what Bell Canada (my other local loop provider) typical aims for in terms of battery power for remote huts ?
Of course it varies from location to location. Generally, after 8-12 hours we will start seeing infrastructure problems as remote batteries run down. Providers will be re-charging batteries with portable generators, but predicting battery lifetimes is as much art as science. Sometimes the battery doesn't last as long as predicted.
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