From: David Lesher Question: Have any NANOG'ers [NANOGites? NANOGees?] run into this? Again, this is LEC owned, LEC maintained, equipment....Do you provide generator power for such in your space?

SBC (Formerly Ameritech, formerly Illinois Bell, soon to be AT&T again, yadda yadda yadda) has always maintained and replaced the batteries for the FLM 150s and 600s that are installed in our data center and metro sites. Usually the Transport group knows something is wrong before the mouth-breathers in our data center do. We provide power via UPS and generator by default as the FLMs are fed off the same grids as the rest of our gear. I personally wouldn't treat those batteries as a UPS if only because I've never seen a load test performed on them that tells me what sort of survivability I can expect out of them. On the residential side it's easy to guess why they are attempting to force the consumer to buy/maintain batteries for the boxes: as always, follow the money... -jfo Jason "Feren" Olsen DeVry, Inc. Senior Network Engineer One Tower Lane Em: jolsen@devry.com Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181-4624 Ph: 630.645.1607 Fx: 630.382.2929