[PPRAANet] COS Century Link Question

[Hants White]

POTS is regulated, and has federal mandates on engineering and uptime.

FIber is not regulated at the same level.  In practice, it generally has
power protections, but they are not "for certain".  I've seen local
connectivity go down with power outages (both commercial and residential),
but usually it does not.

Best practice is to put a UPS on all of your local equipment - helps
protect from both power surges and power outages.

Hants
KD0CXL

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:22 AM Mike Seery <roleohibachi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> I can't speak specifically to what CenturyLink distributes. In other
> markets, I've worked with one household and one business that switched to
> fiber VOIP. Neither had its own battery backup, and in both we've installed
> a local uninterruptible power supply (UPS). They are pretty affordable,
> though you can make your own from well-documented charger and inverter or
> boost/buck circuits and a lead-acid battery.
>
> The advantage to this system is that not only does your phone still work in
> an outage, but so does your internet modem and any other connected devices,
> such as a wireless access point. If the UPS has a USB connection to a
> computer, it can even trigger a safe shutdown automatically. This is
> important if you have spinning-disk drives, not so much for laptops which
> have their own battery "backup" and usually solid-state drives.
>
> It seemed to be money well spent. More complex than POTS but more
> functional, since much news and emergency information is distributed via
> internet during outages.
>
> Hope that's helpful to your decision.
> Mike AD8IS
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:02 AM Paul Signorelli <w0rw1 at msn.com> wrote:
>
> > Does the COS Century Link Fiber Optic system have battery back up?
> >    The old POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) System had big batteries at
> > the central office so that the Telephone worked when the city power went
> > off.
> >    i don't want to back up my Fiber Optic terminal if there isn't any
> > back up in the central office.
> > Paul  w0rw
> >
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