TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Phone Multiplexer Failures, Power Outages, and Firewall Problems

Re: Phone Multiplexer Failures, Power Outages, and Firewall Problems

T (nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net)
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:11:57 -0400

In article <telecom26.174.14@telecom-digest.org>,
rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com says:

> John Levine wrote:

>> Yeah. Verizon's FIOS in effect puts a SLC on your house, with a
>> battery that it's your job to replace every couple of years, and when
>> you forget and the power fails, you lose. The decreasing resiliency
>> of the phone system to power failures is a real problem that nobody
>> seems to be addressing.

> I think that cell phones are now so prevalent that because they have a
> battery and are locatable for 911 purposes that few are worried about
> reduced reliability of POTS during power failures.

>> Regards,

>> John Levine johnl@iecc.com Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies"
>> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
>> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

But the cell phone is useless when the local towers lose AC power. Put
it this way, I know that the NEXTEL box in back of our office has some
big honkin' A/C units but I don't see any power backup at all.

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