East Coast outage? (remote power -- as in remote huts)

Thu Aug 14 22:27:50 UTC 2003

Although our main office here has generator power, what do all the 
intermediary unmanaged network sites typically have for DC power along the 
way ?  One of my local fibre providers told me that the remote hut we are 
off of only will last until about 9:30pm tonight and then bye bye.  Is that 
typical to have 6hrs battery ?  I am sure its all over the map from 
provider to provider, but does anyone know what Bell Canada (my other local 
loop provider) typical aims for in terms of battery power for remote huts ?

         ---Mike

At 05:41 PM 14/08/2003 -0400, Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta) wrote:

>Latest is the failure at 14th street was the original failure and the
>rest cascaded from there.
>
>-d
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>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:51 PM
>To: Aaron D. Britt
>Cc: nanog at merit.edu
>Subject: Re: East Coast outage?
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> >From CNN:
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>NEW YORK (CNN) -- A major power outage simultaneously struck several
>large cities in the United States and Canada late Thursday afternoon.
>
>Cities affected include New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland,
>Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; and Ottawa, Ontario. The
>power outage occurred shortly after 4 p.m.
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><snip>
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>no word on the cause(s), but a ConEd transformer on East 14th street was
>said to be on fine...not sure how that could affect other cities,
>though...
>
>On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Aaron D. Britt wrote:
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> >
> > I just lost 80 circuits (Voice and Data), across multiple states on
> > the East Coast in the last 10 minutes.  Is there a Northeast power
> > outage or fiber cut that anyone knows about?
> >
> > Any info would be appreciated...
> >
> > -Aaron
> >
> >
>
>James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
>up at 3.am                                                     http://3.am
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