[BC] Correction Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Craig Bowman]

I obviously meant to say the other building was serviced by copper.

Craig


Craig Bowman wrote:

> During the most recent outage in the northeastern US, in the Metro 
> Detroit area, after three days without power the copper lines were 
> working.  After a few hours all the fiber was dead.  An interesting 
> note, one of the emergency management headquarters was serviced by 
> fiber.  Near the onset of one of the largest and longest blackouts in 
> the area's history they were forced to move to another building which 
> was serviced by fiber.  At least with copper back to the CO you only 
> have to worry about the CO's backup power.
>
> Craig Bowman
>
>
> Rich Wood wrote:
>
>> ------ At 10:42 AM 6/5/2006, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------
>>
>>> This is one reason I am so reluctant to "let go" of the twisted 
>>> pairs coming
>>> from the CO to my home or to the station. They provide the power to 
>>> make the
>>> phones work, even if the AC Mains are down for more than a week. The
>>> expression, "It just works!" really does apply to the good ol' POTS 
>>> we so often take for
>>> granted.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tain't necessarily so. One of the New York outages, the story goes, 
>> was that the backup batteries weren't charged properly. Maybe 
>> maintenance hadn't reconnected them. There was a power failure 
>> downtown. Phones went out. It might be urban legend but it, 
>> allegedly, happened when all the telco hotshots were in a meeting. No 
>> one was minding the store.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> Rich Wood
>> Rich Wood Multimedia
>> Phone: 413-454-3258
>>
>>
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