[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Craig Bowman]

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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