A case in point, from left field, thanks to Scott M. Drassinower from the NANOG list today, from a thread titled:
"Fiber won't work without electricity."
------
At 1pm, MCI WorldCom had all MFS service restored that was in or passed
through White Plains. It turns out it wasn't a fiber cut.
The building they are located in (One North Broadway, which in addition to
being a regular office tower includes POPs for pre-WorldCom MCI, MFS,
and seemingly Nextel) was having electrical work performed by the building
management. They had to shut down the entire building's power to get this
work done. I stopped by at 12pm, and the building's security guards said
management notified tenants last month they they would have no electricity
on 10/9.
At 7 or 8am the power went off, and the MFS batteries failed at 9am. It
took four hours to get power back on. I guess they thought it was a fiber
cut since the whole area simply went dark. At around 11am, they
determined there was no electricity, and that the fiber was probably
unhurt.
Our C&W Internet service, which passes through the pre-WorldCom MCI POP in
the same building, was unaffected. So either that facility has better
batteries, or they did something to make sure that things would keep
running today.
--
Scott M. Drassinower |
