said by cablegeek01:No kidding! This is a lab, but it's simulating routing for a major metropolitan area/aggregation point. If it was in production, you'd take down a few hundred thousand customers
I would assume that, in production, there would be redundancy, correct?
Although sometimes I assume too much. In my field of work, there are redundancies for nearly everything. Heck, some things even have redundancies for the redundancies. It does get pretty redundant.
said by cablegeek01:I'd love to see the genset(s) backing up that CO.
The building I work in (which is not a CO, but does house a lot of rather important equipment), has two 1.5MW CAT diesel gensets.
They are MASSIVE gensets and very impressive to see/hear them start up.
Total load is just under 1MW, but there are two gensets for redundancy in case one fails to start.