@kirbyan wrote:
All my home phone and networking gear runs off an APC UPS which gives about an hour's backup.
I was quite surprised that when we had a recent Power outage although my all my kit remained running, the kit in the street cabinet didn't.
When the power came back on everything was fine.
This didn't used to be the case as I recall similar situations when everything on my UPS ran okay and maintained connection to the cabinet despite the power cut.
Just wondering what VM's policy is on this and if this is just a faulty UPS in the cabinet?
Isn't there some rule about keeping comms infrastructure stuff running to maintain emergency communications?
Andy
It is quite possible that the network in your area has been resegmented. This allows for more capacity by moving customers onto different nodes. While the fibre nodes usually have batteries, the intermediate powered cabinets (one powered cabinet drives 5 or 6 slave cabinets at 50v through the coax cabling, & there are normally about 25-30 cabinets per fibre node) do not. So if any intermediate cabinet goes down so will any that it drives. I live around 600 metres from my area fibre node, so any power failure in the next estate to me leads to loss of service. VM are under no obligation to maintain Broadband services in a power cut, & indeed OFCOM have removed the rule that new 21CV IP telephone systems have to have backup facilities.
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