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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=818530003-25072006><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#0000ff size=2>In the state of Iowa the PUC is called the Iowa Utility
Board (IUB). </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=818530003-25072006><FONT
face=Tahoma color=#0000ff size=2>According to the IUB, each CO must provide 2
hours of battery reserve (not 4, as I said), and if the C.O. serves over 4000
lines, a generator is required.<BR><A
href="http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2003/iac/199iac/19922/19922pp1.pdf">http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/2003/iac/199iac/19922/19922pp1.pdf</A><BR>Page
26, 22.6(5)<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=818530003-25072006><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#0000ff size=2>Frank</DIV></FONT></SPAN><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Daniel Senie [mailto:dts@senie.com]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 24, 2006 9:12 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
frnkblk@iname.com<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 09:59 PM 7/24/2006, Frank Bulk wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Tahoma 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></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>So when they moved about 1/2 of the town from CO
to SLC, they got out of the obligation to provide dial tone in power outage?
That seems, ummm, interesting. Will be interesting to see what the police chief
learns (I'm on a town board that works closely with the police, so he and I get
to talk often and get along well). He was quite concerned to learn about the
telephone outages that happen.<BR><BR>Thanks for the info. I will follow up with
the PUC folks as well and see what they have to say. The Verizon service folks
did tell me they expected dialtone to work during power failures, and kept
claiming it must be my telephones that are at fault (plugging a very basic,
known-functional POTS phone into the network interface says they're
wrong).<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><BR><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff
size=2>Regards,<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff
size=2>Frank<BR></FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-nanog@merit.edu [<A
href="mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu" eudora="autourl">
mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu</A>] <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>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:
<DL>
<DD>Indeed, my RoadRunner connection is the same way. All of my
stuff stays up,
<DD>but "teh Interweb is broken." I'm guessing that they (DSL/CableCo's)
find it
<DD>too cost-prohibitive to roll out UPSes to the customer aggregation
points.
<DD>Suprisingly, my cable TV goes out as well when the power goes, so it
might
<DD>just be more than the CMTS that's going out.<BR>
<DD>-----Original Message-----
<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
<DD>Michael Loftis
<DD>Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 16:20
<DD>To: <A href="mailto:nanog@merit.edu">nanog@merit.edu</A>
<DD>Subject: Re: Hot weather and power outages continue <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>
<DD>> While its expected for individual customers to go down during
power
<DD>> outages, usually because the customer does not have local backup
<DD>> power, it is less common for major web sites and co-location
centers
<DD>> to experience downtime during power outages.<BR>
<DD>Except if you're in Qwest territory. Apparently they don't put
any battery
<DD>backup at their mini-DSLAMs and such. Every time we lose power,
I'm still
<DD>up, but the DSL signal goes away. Haven't checked dialtone, but
I keep
<DD>meaning too during the next outage.<BR>
<DD>Now I know it's not exactly fair singling out Qwest, because I'll bet
<DD>Verizon and others share the same thing, and I'm pretty sure it's just
their
<DD>ADSL service and not the voice service (I haven't checked
though) it's
<DD>still becoming more and more common that as an individual user your
<DD>connection to the internet, unless you're paying for something other
than
<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"
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