Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
So we experienced a huge downside to VOIP at work today. We had multiple power outages from the fires in Ventura County and our work phones went down every time. Took a long time to re-boot and then the power would go out again.
The switches that power them should be on a big UPS, with a generator that kicks in at some point before the UPS dies. It would be the same for any of the old Nortel phone systems where the phones are powered by the main unit (though they are a bit quicker to boot).
variant two: battery starting the generator is dead!
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
So we experienced a huge downside to VOIP at work today. We had multiple power outages from the fires in Ventura County and our work phones went down every time. Took a long time to re-boot and then the power would go out again.
The switches that power them should be on a big UPS, with a generator that kicks in at some point before the UPS dies. It would be the same for any of the old Nortel phone systems where the phones are powered by the main unit (though they are a bit quicker to boot).
variant two: battery starting the generator is dead!