TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Phone Multiplexer Failures, Power Outages, and Firewall Problems

Re: Phone Multiplexer Failures, Power Outages, and Firewall Problems

Rick Merrill (rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com)
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:57:09 -0400

John Levine wrote:

> Yeah. Verizon's FIOS in effect puts a SLC on your house, with a
> battery that it's your job to replace every couple of years, and when
> you forget and the power fails, you lose. The decreasing resiliency
> of the phone system to power failures is a real problem that nobody
> seems to be addressing.

I think that cell phones are now so prevalent that because they have a
battery and are locatable for 911 purposes that few are worried about
reduced reliability of POTS during power failures.

> Regards,

> John Levine johnl@iecc.com Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

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