[Fwd: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.]

[Peter Giza <giza () adsmart net>]

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> From: Peter Giza <giza () adsmart net>
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> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 14:13:40 -0400
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> Robert T. Nelson wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Christopher Masto wrote:
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> > > The question is, what gets power?  Assuming you're the size of BBN, it
> > > becomes.. er.. "physically impractical" to power everything with a
> > > generator.  I know when I was at RPI, though they had a room full of
> > > batteries (3-5 minutes of power), and a huge generator, it was only
> > > enough to power the telephone system and mainframe.  In fact, it
> > > couldn't handle the water cooler for the mainframe.  But the point is,
> > > even though (I hope) BBN isn't using a power-hungry mainframe, enough
> > > routers, switches, NOC workstations, etc. will eventually add up to
> > > more kilowatts than you can supply yourself.  A decision has to be
> > > made as to what stays on and what doesn't.
> >
> > If you're in a 24x7, customer-driven market, you should have either:
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> > a) enough go-juice (via fuel contractor) to go until the grid is on-line
> >
> > OR
> >
> > b) smaller NOCs.
> >
> > There is no excuse for a large player like GTE to lose power for any
> > extended period off time. (I can understand a brief, reboot long, outage
> > if something went awry, but hours? No sir.)
> >
> > Rob Nelson
> > President, INTERNOC (tm)
> > the internetwork operating company, inc.
> > +1.210.299.INOC / rnelson () internoc com
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> sigh... A goodly section of Cambridge lost power, a utility worker 42
> years old with 6 children died, give it a break.  The POPs affected
> were legacy NEARNET (I believe) POPs which are primarily used today
> for 56kbps links modulo the legacy connections with larger pipes.
> These were **not** backbone POPs.  Should they have had a better power
> backup solution?, yeah.  Did it affect BBNs' backbone?, thank God *no*
> at least I'm thankful for that.
>
> "Year of the Backhoe" and "Blackout Daze" #%^>
>
> -pete
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