Negative, PTP fiber circuit. -Mike
> On Feb 22, 2023, at 19:37, Jay Hennigan <j...@west.net> wrote: > > On 2/22/23 19:20, Mike Lyon wrote: >> Going on 12 hours on an outage that is due to a power outage somewhere. >> According to the Wave/Astound NOC, generator(s) were on the way 6 hours ago… >> If you could hit me up offlist, i can give you the master ticket number. >> I’m having a hard time figuring out why it takes 6 hours to get a generator >> up and running in Silicon Valley. > > Is this a cable modem connection? Fiber-to-coax media converters and coaxial > trunk amplifiers are fed from AC transformers on random poles or next to > random underground pedestals. They need to roll a truck to the location(s) > without power and basically set up a generator and plug the power injector > into it. They typically use little Honda portables (which need refueling > fairly often). Unless you're real close to the cable company's head-end there > usually isn't any kind of automatic backup power. > > When there's a local power outage near me in Oregon, Wave doesn't even bother > with generators as typically their customers' power in the area is out too. > > -- > Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net > Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 > 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV >
