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Broadband network resilience to rota disconnection

Ryder Marsden
With a real risk of rota disconnection this winter, I have been looking into UPS and home battery backup solutions (which would also enable me to utilise off-peak tariffs). However, I have been unable to find out whether the broadband distribution cabinets in the road have a priority mains supply which would not be affected by rota cuts. There is no point in providing backup power for computers and routers if the broadband network shuts down. I asked an openreach technician and he didn't know. Can anyone give an authoritative answer?
Since FTP services remove the old analogue phone lines - and hence the ability to make emergency phone calls - I'm assuming a high level of resilience. But FTP subscribers would need mains power to their handsets in such a case, so maybe it's assumed that we will use mobile phones in any emergency during a blackout.
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    Quite pertinent to this discussion is this recent article published in E and T  where telecoms operators are asking to be spared from power cuts.. Almost as if they would like to transfer their cost saving failure to install adequate  battery backup into the power company's problem. Perhaps a bit of early blame storming.*

    I think the performance will probably be disappointing, given the way that ROTA cuts work by blacking out a whole area  - just leaving power on to base of the mast or the comms cabinet with the rest of the district in blackout, is not really an option, unless the comms company has installed a dedicated power cable for themselves, or perhaps paid the DNO for an extra one, as of course they did in the era of the traditional analogue phone. (the analogue telephones had banks of batteries at the exchange to power the lines, and in many cases redundant mains supplies to charge those batteries as well, and in other locations there were generators. )

    Mike

    * much as the old put down, "your lack of planning does not make it my emergency." and similar.

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    Quite pertinent to this discussion is this recent article published in E and T  where telecoms operators are asking to be spared from power cuts.. Almost as if they would like to transfer their cost saving failure to install adequate  battery backup into the power company's problem. Perhaps a bit of early blame storming.*

    I think the performance will probably be disappointing, given the way that ROTA cuts work by blacking out a whole area  - just leaving power on to base of the mast or the comms cabinet with the rest of the district in blackout, is not really an option, unless the comms company has installed a dedicated power cable for themselves, or perhaps paid the DNO for an extra one, as of course they did in the era of the traditional analogue phone. (the analogue telephones had banks of batteries at the exchange to power the lines, and in many cases redundant mains supplies to charge those batteries as well, and in other locations there were generators. )

    Mike

    * much as the old put down, "your lack of planning does not make it my emergency." and similar.

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