See UTOPIA's Standby Power RFB <sic>: Invitation to submit sealed bids for stationary and transportable generators RFB 2005GEN-004 June 2, 2005 http://www.utopianet.org/contracts/RFPs/pdfs/RFB_2005GEN-004.pdf --- Frank A. Coluccio DTI Consulting Inc. 212-857-8150 Office 347-526-6788 Mobile On Sat Jun 4 23:02 , Sean Donelan sent:

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, David Lesher wrote:

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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?

Generally, the ILECs were the only ones that did this. I've had multiple CLECs (Brooks, MFS, WilTel, etc) install fibermux cabinets, none of them provided any backup batteries by default. They used local building power, and we had to make sure they were connected to our backup generator.

If you wanted to pay for it, some of the CLECs would add batteries. But it wasn't part of the base package.