[BBLISA] co-location

[Benjamin Cline]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Dean Anderson wrote:
> Beware of the story "We have dual power grids", in lieu of generator
> backup. They always leave off the "in lieu of " part.
>
> In my experience, with the _sole_ exception of 9/11**, I've not found it
> to be terribly useful, and sometimes its a disadvantage: The Genuity/GTE
> site in waltham had dual power and transfer switches, and once we were
> _brought down_ as a result.  Maintenance on the redundant service somehow
> triggered a failure in the primary, and the whole site went down for
> several hours.  There were generators, but not enough to run the whole
> sites datacenters.  Oops.
>

I'm a former Genuity/GTE employee, and other than GTE Labs (which wasn't a
customer collocation site), I don't recall any facilities in Waltham.
Are you perhaps thinking of the Savvis (formerly Cable & Wireless,
formerly Exodus) data center?

	benji

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