It is a mixed bag for us. We have over 80 closets on our campus. If we think a location has reliable power, we don’t bother and we just replace a switch if something happens. We did identify 5 residential buildings that have unreliable power so we put UPS’s in them. The other buildings literally can stay up all 365 days. Of course we always use USP’s in our main computing centers and distribution points. If by some chance a switch were to actually get damaged, it is likely the vendor would replace it for free anyways. We keep a few spares to handle one or two buildings quickly if ever necessary. The economics of not having UPS’s everywhere can sure buy a lot of switches and other things. We are not Google or Amazon so 100% reliability is not worth the cost to us at the edge.
Tim *From:* The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Sandra Bury *Sent:* Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:02 AM *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Backup power Good morning - I would be interested to know how many of you include UPS purchases for switches in each network closet in your campus deployments. If you do not build in backup power, do you put your switches on a maintenance contract, or do you pay to replace them when they fail outside of warranty? Thanks very much. Sandy *Sandra H. Bury* Executive Director, Computing Services Information Resources and Technology Bradley University 309-677-2808 sa...@bradley.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
