yabos
join:2003-02-16
London, ON | FIOS and phone Does the FIOS VOIP go down when there's a power outage? |
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 oroperPatriots Rule
join:2004-06-01
Beverly, MA | said by yabos:Does the FIOS VOIP go down when there's a power outage? The battery backup should last for approx 8 hrs. I think you can also add a UPS to it to last longer.
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I don't really know the answer to the question, but there is a 12 hour backup battery for the fiber.
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I believe they install a battery that powers the customer end for several hours. |
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 JTRockvilleData HoPremium,MVM
join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD | The battery doesn't power everything on the customer end - only the phone service (not IP, and probably not video).
Loss of power often coincides with an emergency situation, which isn't the best time to lose your ability to communicate. |
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 The BeerI Love It When A Plan Comes TogetherPremium
join:2001-07-24
Atlantic, IA | Better yet send high intesity light, or a strange spectrum of light down a pair of fiber with a solar cell at the end...
I know that was stupid but it sounds cool! |
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 quetwoThat VoIP GuyPremium
join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI | reply to shashinka
said by shashinka:I believe they install a battery that powers the customer end for several hours. A couple of hours is not long enough! Remember the big black-out that part of the country suffered through for up two two days? If only fiber is deployed to the home, we will loose telephone support.
Your local LEC is required to keep their central offices / IDFs working, even through black outs. If their batteries go dead, they switch to desiel. During the big-black out, Linemen were running out to every pedistal and hooking up generators, and filling them up with gas often. This way, should someone have an emergency, they could still contact 911. |
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Hey - you know what? That actually does sound cool. I'm sure there will be a bunch of people chiming in about how "that's not possible, you can't do that", but hey, never say never!
Sounds better than PoE, would it be called PoF?... |
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 NOCManMacChatterPremium
join:2004-09-30
Colorado Springs, CO | reply to The Beer
Actually that would be fine to power almost anything given that anything ran off superconductors. Reason everything takes so much power is becuase it's more efficient at leaking energy than using it. Just look at how much computer processors give off in heat. 100w under load for some of them and they're consuming up to 300w in some cases. |
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I wouldn't think it would power everything either but whatever they are terminating (maybe not the ethernet). Any analog phones would get power from the termination box. |
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I cannot speak for Fios in the context of VoIP, but I can say that BellSouth's IFITL and virtual POTS (in the sense its riding fiber from the lawn torpedo to the central office several miles away) is very reliable. I have only once had POTS not working and that was daytime planned maintenance (caught the technician down the street). Of course, this is not VoIP. |
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