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

For how long?

Cover a switching dropout or auto recloser trip/reset? Cover 10 mins
whilst DNO engineer drives between manual switches to restore supply
via a different route?

36 hours whilst they replace snapped poles and switch gear bought
down by an ice storm?

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Cheers
Dave.