[Cialug]voip

[Dave Weis]

neal daringer wrote:
> UPS? i have a ups with enough juice to power my cable modem, switch, and 
> ATA for a good 8 hours. i dont think i need to worry about having less 
> reliability than POTS. the difference between POTS and voip can be 
> negligible, you just have to be willing to take the extra steps(most of 
> which the POTS systems has in place but you never see i.e. diesel 
> generators, etc.)

There's still large parts of Mediacom's network that either doesn't have 
battery backup or very short duration backup.

One of the things the telco has right is fewer bigger boxes with large 
strings of batteries in them and generator taps on the side in case the 
batteries run out.

dave