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RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk () iname com>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 22:07:37 -0500
As someone else posted, many FTTH installations are centralized as much as possible to avoid having non-passive equipment in the plant, allowing for the practicality of onsite generators. That's what we do. But for those who have powered nodes in the field (distributed/tiered BPON or GPON configurations and cable plants), it's not realistic to keep them all powered. Despite what the DOT may be able to do. Frank -----Original Message----- From: wherrin () gmail com [mailto:wherrin () gmail com] On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:53 PM To: frnkblk () iname com Cc: nanog () nanog org; Seth Mattinen Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk () iname com> wrote:
A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there were, not enough people to set them and give them their fluids.
Doesn't take a "good" generator to maintain a -48V battery string. Drop it off. Plug it in. Start it up. Task some folks on an 8 hour loop to keep the tanks topped off. If the DOT, not noted for its efficiency, can get the major traffic lights up and running on generators the next day, why can't Sprint, Cox and Verizon get their towers and fiber concentrators powered up? That's a condemnation worthy of the word: that your company performed worse in the storm recovery than the local department of transportation. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?, (continued)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Seth Mattinen (Aug 03)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? William Herrin (Aug 03)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Owen DeLong (Aug 03)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? William Herrin (Aug 03)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Christopher Morrow (Aug 03)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Owen DeLong (Aug 03)
- RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Schiller, Heather A (Aug 09)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Joe Provo (Aug 03)
- RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Frank Bulk (Aug 03)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? William Herrin (Aug 03)
- RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Frank Bulk (Aug 03)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Mike Jones (Aug 04)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? joel jaeggli (Aug 04)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? William Herrin (Aug 04)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Eugen Leitl (Aug 04)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? William Herrin (Aug 04)
- RE: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Wallace Keith (Aug 03)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Chris Adams (Aug 04)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? William Herrin (Aug 04)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Chris Adams (Aug 04)
- Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option? Jimmy Hess (Aug 04)