San Francisco Power Outage

Wed Jul 25 11:58:30 UTC 2007

Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:

> Level 4 datacenters can, and will, fail.  Nothing you can 
> do including just doing 48V DC for everything are truly 
> foolproof solutions.

Hard to find anyone who takes the -48vdc mantra to heart more
than an RBOC. Ditto on lightning protection.

Yet I recall the Bell South 305-255 CO taking a lightning hit on
the incoming power; the 5ESS was down for 3-4 hours.

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