[OT] Re: [Cialug]voip

[neal daringer]

isn't there a standard for how data centers are supposed to be powered 
in the event of failure? or is that more of a decision of the persons 
who design it. i've only been physically in one data center before (at 
AEGON in C.R.) they had like 3 huge diesel generators and rows and rows 
of batteries. one floor of switches and another floor of servers. 
something that large has to have a good plan in place for power failure.

Dave Weis wrote:
> neal daringer wrote:
>> UPS? i have a ups with enough juice to power my cable modem, switch, 
>> and ATA for a good 8 hours. i dont think i need to worry about having 
>> less reliability than POTS. the difference between POTS and voip can 
>> be negligible, you just have to be willing to take the extra 
>> steps(most of which the POTS systems has in place but you never see 
>> i.e. diesel generators, etc.)
>
> There's still large parts of Mediacom's network that either doesn't 
> have battery backup or very short duration backup.
>
> One of the things the telco has right is fewer bigger boxes with large 
> strings of batteries in them and generator taps on the side in case 
> the batteries run out.
>
> dave
>
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