[BC] Disaster planning

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I don't know if I totally get the connectively problem.

Our Dallas office had both Southwestern Bell and Verizon, with Verizon  
being the primary phone and Internet carrier, though they are the CLEC  
there.

Manhole fade (flooding) took us out.  TOTALLY.

UNLESS you have satellite (and we did) plus LEC, plus CLEC, I don't  
know how you can stay up.  The VSAT terminal did not keep the phones  
up, or the Internet.  It kept the programming up.

While the sat feed stayed up, but it wasn't broad enough.

I think you REAlLY need to think outside the box, then think outside  
THAT box.

--chip

On Jul 3, 2009, at 11:15 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 12
> From: Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com>

> ]At 11:54 AM 7/3/2009, Chris Gebhardt wrote:
>>>         Chris, out of curiosity, how long does your UPS last in the
>>>         event both power feeds die?
>>
>> the design of the system is that if both electric services fail,
>> generator takes over.  Our generator will assume the load within 30
>> seconds (including bounce delay).    If our utility feeds AND  
>> generator
>> both fail, we wait on a replacement generator.   In most cases that  
>> will
>> arrive within 2 hours, but guaranteed 4.
>
>         It would take a major power failure to
>         cause both feeds to go down .. and would
>         that not mean most of downtown Dallas would
>         be dark?
>
>         It just goes to show that it is impossible to
>         anticipate everything, but a good plan does
>         reach to the third "what if?" level.
>
>         Looks like you have given this more than
>         ten minutes thought! <g>