[BBLISA] bblisa Digest, Vol 33, Issue 2

[Larry Beaulieu]

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> On Aug 9, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Larry Beaulieu wrote:
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> >> Internap and Level 3 facilities I 've goten some decent feedback  
> >> from would
> >> be customers of mine.  On L3, you are sitting into a fiber rich  
> >> area ( Bent
> >> Stree ).  Power wise, it's so and so.  While working for Network  
> >> Plus in
> >> 1999, we experienced a serious power outage there that took down  
> >> our CO,
> >> then at 73 or 75 Bent Street.
> > 	
> > 	The Level 3 facility @ 300 Bent had its own battery-backed DC plant
> > 	(w/generator) that fed a N+1 UPS config for AC power. You didn't have
> > 	that in the 4000 sq ft you leased from the landlord @ 75 Bent.
> 
> I seem to recall that they have a few generators, and a well- 

	They may have added additional units, but when it was originally
	built out it had a single generator.

> engineered power system.
> When I toured the site a few months ago, They seemed to have put a  
> lot of effort into
> a solid power setup.   So much so that buying redundant power feeds  
> into the cabinet
> didn't seem as necessary as it does in other locations.

	At the very least you could ask that the redundant feeds come
	from different PDUs. 
 
> The power outage in 1999 (?) took out a large amount of the cambridge  
> grid.   I had power
> in Porter, but the lights went dark just around harvard square and  
> continued on through
> to East Cambridge.   All of MIT and Harvard were out.   An NStar  
> worker was killed in the
> manhole cover explosion in Kendall, not far from Bent street.   My  
> recollection is that it was
> a good 8-10 hours before power was fully restored.    It wasn't a  
> pretty situation.

	That particular incident was in 1998 BTW.