On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:25:06 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

T i m wrote:

I understand that you should be ok with broadband staying up with ADSL
but do you know if those of us on cable would be ok? Eg, are the green
cabinets (assuming they aren't passive) remotely powered or have a UPS
of their own etc?

I'm on VDSL, and the BT cabinets with the DSLAM/MSAN have battery backup.

Ok.

The Virgin cabinets here only pass photons, no electrons, so presumably
the headend is UPS/generator backed?

We are deffo still coax here (was Cable-Tel NTL now VM) so being
electrons would need powering somehow. ;-)

It's just that I wouldn't bother putting the modem - router -
switch(s) on UPS(s) if the BB was going to be down in any case. ;-(

Cheers, T i m