We have an APC Smart-UPS in every closet. Between VoIP, WiFi, paging, HVAC, door locks, and repeaters for 2-way radios, we can’t let a power glitch interrupt connectivity, especially since we’re in a rural area prone to brownouts and blackouts.
We’re also on a hill, prone to lightning strikes, which can go through the Cat5, circumventing the UPS. We had a strike last summer ruin one whole switch, several ports in a couple other switches, a couple IP cameras, an AP, and a copier NIC. We carry warranties on all our Juniper switches on our main campus, however, our newly-acquired campus came with ProCurve switches with the lifetime warranty, so we may let the Juniper warranties lapse and replace them with HP as they die, with the exception of the core. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Sandra Bury Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:02 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<mailto:sa...@bradley.edu> [https://www.bradley.edu/global/images/emailsig_wordmark.gif] ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. This e-mail message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL or PRIVILEGED material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the original message. If you are the intended recipient but do not wish to receive communications through this medium, please so advise the sender immediately. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
