Battery Maint in LEC equipment

Sun Jun 5 04:09:57 UTC 2005

In NJ, Verizon, MFS, and Telcove all install batteries.

We put them on our UPS and Genset anyway, however.

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, W.D.McKinney wrote:

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean at donelan.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2005 04:02 AM
>> To: 'David Lesher'
>> Cc: 'nanog list'
>> Subject: Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
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>> On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, David Lesher wrote:
>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> If you wanted to pay for it, some of the CLECs would add batteries.  But
>> it wasn't part of the base package.
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> All the AT&T pops usually have nice battery and gen sets. That's what I like.
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> Dee
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