BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.
Phil Howard
phil at charon.milepost.com
Fri Aug 8 13:59:44 UTC 1997
> >
> >
> > The BBN Cambridge POP is "down and out" after a nearby manhole fire cut
> > power to the building housing the POP.
> >
> >
> > -Where is the generator backup?
>
>
> It's my understanding that BBN had emergency generator backup, but that it was
> insufficient to cover this outage. I'm pretty sure I saw that in one of
> their ticket emails last night, although it's not in the official ticket
> history.
It's my understanding that a battery supply that lasts long enough to get
the emergency generator running, along with a fuel contractor to keep the
generator topped off, can last over rather long outages.
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