Background:
Verizontal is pushing their FIOS PON offering to residences. It will
put IP access, 'cable' TV and POTS phone on glass. They then cut down
your copper drop.
But midst the VoIP E911 dustup, the issue of backup power has
arisen. The FIOS box needs local power, and a small gel-cell
good for say 5 hours. The *subscriber* must buy and install new
ones as needed. Some pholks are dubious how well that will work...
Foreground:
There's one report that Verizontal, in ex-NuNuts territory, is also
not maintaining batteries in their on-premises DS-3 -> n DS-1's mux's.
Only if you get a full DS-3 will they bother.
Question:
Have any NANOG'ers [NANOGites? NANOGees?] run into this? Again, this
is LEC owned, LEC maintained, equipment....Do you provide generator
power for such in your space?
Once upon a time, David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com> said:
Have any NANOG'ers [NANOGites? NANOGees?] run into this? Again, this
is LEC owned, LEC maintained, equipment....Do you provide generator
power for such in your space?
We do provide generator power in our space to the telcos. BellSouth has
a big (pre-existing) battery bank, but KMC didn't install batteries
(there wasn't much point; if our UPS and generator fail, there's nothing
for them to provide service to).
In this area, I believe that BellSouth uses natural gas powered
generators, as many of the remote cabinets (installed in the last 5-7
years or so anyway) have a gas meter next to them and a line running
into a second cabinet (generator/power supply I suppose).
Background:
Verizontal is pushing their FIOS PON offering to residences. It will
put IP access, 'cable' TV and POTS phone on glass. They then cut down
your copper drop.
But midst the VoIP E911 dustup, the issue of backup power has
arisen. The FIOS box needs local power, and a small gel-cell
good for say 5 hours. The *subscriber* must buy and install new
ones as needed. Some pholks are dubious how well that will work...
If it has a sufficiently anoying alarm. someone will eventually service it...
If the cpe requires the consumer to test the battery no-one will ever replace them.
Generally, the ILECs were the only ones that did this. I've had multiple
CLECs (Brooks, MFS, WilTel, etc) install fibermux cabinets, none of them
provided any backup batteries by default. They used local building power,
and we had to make sure they were connected to our backup generator.
If you wanted to pay for it, some of the CLECs would add batteries. But
it wasn't part of the base package.