Re: [SLUG] OT: 2-30Mb fiber from Verizon

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Fri Jul 23 2004 - 10:34:51 EDT


Richard S. Smoot wrote:

>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The UPS is probably there to give some normal phone functionality
>
>
> in that it can run for a while when you lose power. There may be a
> statutory requirement
> for this, since Verizon was set up as a monopoly. Normal phones all run
> off the phone line
> supplied 48VDC.

How odd. One certainly doesn't need an entire UPS to do that.
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