lml, some of my comments in my last post were partly tongue in cheek.
"... was more than the "remote fix" you subsequently describe."
I think that in my post I was discussing preparing against both power outages, _AND_ fiber failures (therefore, my allusion to the FTTH scenario, because it typically is thought of as having no central office lifeline battery). Then, in the latter case (fiber failures in situations where there were no metallic conductors going back to the CO), even an on-site generation plant doesn't help, unless it's used to power wireless units.
Wireless, hopefully, would still function properly, if the cell sites in the serving area were not also dependent on the same fiber ring that failed, again, assuming that it was the optical component that was taken out in the first place.
Quite a bit of soul searching took place last year by large enterprises and governments in the search to devise the most likely fail-safe solution to meet just about any Y2K failure contingency. What to use as the voice platform of last resort? Some firms went as far as building new satellite links, but soon they found themselves being asked who was it that they would speak to in the event of a massive catastrophic failure?
The universe of reachable off points using satellite links is rather limited, except for those other locations in the enterprise that happen to be on net. Of course, links "could" be established to switched services in diverse remote locales. What a fiasco that whole "what if" exercise was, for a while. Glad it's over.
Nextel made out rather well, tho, racking up big sales to meet Y2K contingencies, and many of those units are still in use today. Bring on Y3K, they must be saying.
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