Airplane crashing into Atlanta-NAP

Sun Oct 27 22:41:17 UTC 1996

> > The primary reason for telephone exchanges of the past being built on
> > ground floors and basements was the weight of the equipment and the
> > difficulty of moving it.  In modern times, the weight of the batteries
> > still plays a role, but exchanges are being remoted away from the batteries
> > with increasing regularity.
> > 
> Mae-East is pretty good example of this still..  those DC batteries didn't
> appear to me to be featherweights, up ontop of concrete blocks.  I don't recall
> seeing DC batteries in mae-west up in the building..  where did they put 
> them?
> 
They are indeed upstairs, one floor below the node.

> The cost of building a datacenter in a multistory building is much much 
> greater than a one story building, as we have learned.  The only benefit we
> have seen from the multistories, is the usual coincidence that they are
> more likely to be "lit" with glass, than a vacant one story..  unless you are
> acquiring an old bell building or something.. owen ;)
> 
Actually, it depends on the multi-story building.  Of course, we did acquire an
old Telco suite. :-)

> rob
> 
> 
Owen