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- 08-14-2003, 09:03 PM #1CraigGuest
Was in Secaucus, NJ today, power went down as most of you know. Only
phones that worked were a Verizon phone and my Sprint phone. Does
anyone have more details on the backup power systems of a cell site /
switching station? I would imagine the whole system would need to be
powered for any of it to function. I have read several posts about
sites having diesel and battery backups. Any more detail would be
great.
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- 08-14-2003, 09:36 PM #2Jim-GGuest
Re: Cell Site Backup Power
the tower builds were by different firms in each state for Sprintpcs. In
Florida they did a build at our tower site and they included backup.
Jim-G
- 08-15-2003, 06:20 PM #3Joel KolstadGuest
Re: Cell Site Backup Power
Craig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Was in Secaucus, NJ today, power went down as most of you know. Only
> phones that worked were a Verizon phone and my Sprint phone. Does
> anyone have more details on the backup power systems of a cell site /
> switching station?
My understanding is that some are backed up, some aren't. I've seen both
kinds myself -- lonely cell sites that do little more than provide coverage
for one carrier and then connect to a roadside fiber drop or aggregate
everything to a directional microwave link -- with all the electronics in a
large box next to the tower --, all the way to the sites that have numerous
antennas hanging off of them providing coverage for a couple of carriers,
microwave links for contracted connections (and to other cell towers), etc.
that have something of a 'bunker' containing a lot of equipment that have
fairly good sized battery backups in place.
I would be interested in hearing what someone actually working in the
industry has to say about when/how they decide to backup a site or not -- I
imagine a lot of it involves contracts with the various 3rd party traffic
that the sites often carry and the requirement by those 3rd parties to
provide backup!
---Joel Kolstad
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