[LINK] Batteries again [Was: Future of Telecommunications in Canberra]

[Kim Holburn]

My concern is that when we decentralise the battery UPS out of the Telstra exchanges is that making sure they have a proper system to monitor and replace them is much harder.

In other words, after a few years we get an outage and all the batteries are dead.

On 2011/May/16, at 4:01 PM, David Boxall wrote:

> On 15/05/2011 3:02 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> ...
>> Transact is now installing Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) underground in
>> to Canberra suburbs. The company installs a metal box on the outside of
>> the house, similar in appearance to an electrical meter box. This houses
>> the fibre termination, Ethernet and telephone interfaces and,
>> importantly, a battery backup. The backup lasts for up to eight hours
>> and maintains voice communications as a priority, first dropping d-TV,
>> then Internet, to save power. While I and others, have advocated that
>> battery backup should be part of the new NBN service, it is not clear
>> this will be done and so Transact's service is superior to NBN in this
>> respect. During Canberra's fire-storms, the service continued to operate
>> across the city despite power brownouts (apart from the suburbs where
>> the infrastructure was destroyed by the fire).
>> ...
> The concern with batteries is, as always, health and environmental 
> impacts. What is Transact's experience? Where are old batteries 
> processed and by whom? What are the costs to health and the environment, 
> as well as financial costs? Bearing in mind that, for basic 
> telecommunications, a landline is not our only (nor, in an emergency, 
> our best) option, is the convenience worth those costs?
> 
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