Re: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-21 Thread Sean Donelan
Its too early for an after-action review. Nevertheless, this report by the Miami Herald is the best summary to date of the aftermath in Puerto Rico. Its solid journalism, covers the wide-span of the destruction, and gives credit and blame based on documented evidence. Its longer than a

RE: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-20 Thread Jacques Latour
9, 2017 7:56 PM > To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> > Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet > services > > This thread is mostly full of idle speculation, is at the leas

Re: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-19 Thread Todd Underwood
This thread is mostly full of idle speculation, is at the least insensitive and verges on offensive. If you have operational information about Puerto Rico (see Sean Donelan's posts rather than these responses), please go ahead. If you would like to allocate blame, please go somewhere else to do

Re: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-19 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 2017-10-19 18:18, Wayne Bouchard wrote: > Well, the problem as I understand it is that the infrastructure was > not all that great to begin with. Much of it was damaged in the first > storm and when this second one came through, what remained basically > disappeared. Being hit with a Cat 5

Re: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-19 Thread Wayne Bouchard
Well, the problem as I understand it is that the infrastructure was not all that great to begin with. Much of it was damaged in the first storm and when this second one came through, what remained basically disappeared. That's why they say that the only thing you can do is start from the middle

Re: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-19 Thread Jeff Shultz
It does make you wonder about the electrical infrastructure of the island, and how much work is being done to repair it. With the Texas and Florida hurricanes you saw fleets of electrical service vehicles (boom trucks and the like) from other power companies with joint agreements waiting to deploy

Re: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-19 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 2017-10-19 03:00, Sean Donelan wrote: > not intended for long-term, continuous use. The generators will need > maintenance and likely experience unscheduled failures the longer they're > used. Permanent duty diesel generators exist. Many northern communities in Canada run on them as their

Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On October 18, 2017, the Puerto Rican Telecommunications Alliance warned the lack of utility power in the main telecommunications centers (Metro office park, Caparra and San Patricio) may not be sustainable soon. Although the telecommunication facilities are using generators, they are not