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color=#0000ff size=2>Depending on the state you live in, the PUC generally
requires 4 to 8 hours of dialtone if it's generated from the C.O. Dialtone
generated from SLC may not be explicitly covered under the
rules.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=823025801-25072006><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#0000ff size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=823025801-25072006><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#0000ff size=2>Frank</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-nanog@merit.edu
[mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Daniel Senie<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Monday, July 24, 2006 5:47 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Brandon Galbraith<BR><B>Cc:</B>
nanog@merit.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Hot weather and power outages
continue<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>At 06:26 PM 7/24/2006, Brandon Galbraith wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">While hardwired (fiber/coax/copper)
aggregation points usually don't have backup power on them, most cellular
towers have either batteries or generators for backup power,
correct?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>We see good cable modem connectivity during power
outages. Batteries must still be good in the HFC nodes in our area. Verizon POTS
service, on the other hand, dies when the power does. The batteries in their SLC
units are toast. I've got the local police chief off conversing with the Verizon
E911 folks to find out why it's OK to have no 911 service to a large part of
town when there's no power (Verizon repair kept trying to tell me it must be my
equipment, despite testing at the network interface).<BR><BR>I am looking at
moving telephone services off to Comcast or VOIP because they're more reliable
than Verizon is, in my particular neighborhood.<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">-brandon<BR><BR>On 7/24/06,
<B>William S. Duncanson</B> <<A
href="mailto:caesar@starkreality.com">caesar@starkreality.com</A> >
wrote:<BR>
<DL><BR>
<DD>Indeed, my RoadRunner connection is the same way. All of my stuff
stays up,<BR>
<DD>but "teh Interweb is broken." I'm guessing that they (DSL/CableCo's)
find it<BR>
<DD>too cost-prohibitive to roll out UPSes to the customer aggregation
points. <BR>
<DD>Suprisingly, my cable TV goes out as well when the power goes, so it
might<BR>
<DD>just be more than the CMTS that's going out.<BR><BR>
<DD>-----Original Message-----<BR>
<DD>From: <A href="mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu">owner-nanog@merit.edu
</A>[<A href="mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu" eudora="autourl">
mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu</A>] On Behalf Of<BR>
<DD>Michael Loftis<BR>
<DD>Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 16:20<BR>
<DD>To: <A href="mailto:nanog@merit.edu">nanog@merit.edu</A><BR>
<DD>Subject: Re: Hot weather and power outages continue <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
<DD>--On July 24, 2006 2:22:26 AM -0400 Sean Donelan <<A
href="mailto:sean@donelan.com">sean@donelan.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>
<DD>> While its expected for individual customers to go down during
power<BR>
<DD>> outages, usually because the customer does not have local
backup<BR>
<DD>> power, it is less common for major web sites and co-location
centers<BR>
<DD>> to experience downtime during power outages.<BR><BR>
<DD>Except if you're in Qwest territory. Apparently they don't put any
battery <BR>
<DD>backup at their mini-DSLAMs and such. Every time we lose power,
I'm still<BR>
<DD>up, but the DSL signal goes away. Haven't checked dialtone, but I
keep<BR>
<DD>meaning too during the next outage.<BR><BR>
<DD>Now I know it's not exactly fair singling out Qwest, because I'll bet
<BR>
<DD>Verizon and others share the same thing, and I'm pretty sure it's just
their<BR>
<DD>ADSL service and not the voice service (I haven't checked though)
it's<BR>
<DD>still becoming more and more common that as an individual user your <BR>
<DD>connection to the internet, unless you're paying for something other
than<BR>
<DD>ADSL or Cable, will be just as affected by local power
outages.<BR><BR></DD></DL><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Brandon Galbraith<BR>Email: <A
href="mailto:brandon.galbraith@gmail.com">brandon.galbraith@gmail.com</A><BR>AIM:
brandong00<BR>Voice: 630.400.6992<BR>"A true pirate starts drinking before the
sun hits the yard-arm. Yarrrr. --thelost" </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>