[AusNOG] [ISOC-AU-mems] Quigley announces architectural "stakein the ground"

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > and their continued support shouldn't be drop-dead mandated as a
> > > requirement for the new network.
> >
> > Battery backed equipment could be supplied to those customers which
> > require it (ie medical need). I imagine the number of such users is
> > only be a small percentage of the population.
>
> Good thing most of us haven't really been through a disaster that
> really required a functional telecommunications network in a pinch,
> eh? :)

Yeah, although I hear phone towers work pretty well until their 
batteries run out :)

That said my cordless phone and ADSL modem run off a UPS :)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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