Re: Communications Question

Chuck - verify in the phone closet the telco has what looks like a little
controller
box, with usually green & red lights. It's powered also, and drops the
signal
if power out.
I usually get the phone & electric guys together, and make sure you have UPS
to everything powered in the phone closet (and don't assume there is only
one
closet- start where the cable hits the building!) It doesn't take much UPS
to cover the telco equipment. This plus your dumb tube should do it.
jim

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From: <MWalter@hanoverwire.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: Communications Question


>
> Because your installation is almost an exact replica of ours, I am very
> interested in replies to this thread.
>
> I'm assuming that the dumb terminal would be twinax connected to your
Perle
> controller. But, is the dumb terminal an APPC device or just a remote
> twinax device?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
> Mark Walter
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> Hanover Wire Cloth a div of CCX, Inc.
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> Hi Folks,
>
> We have 8 remote locations all tied back to our AS/400 here at corporate
> via Frame Relay. The devices at each remote site consist of a Cisco
> router, a Perle control unit with NIC card, etc. We use TCP/IP to
> connect everything. Then there are either hubs or switches depending on
> the size of the site. All of this is in a rack in a wiring closet and it
> is all protected by an APC rack mount UPS.
>
> The end user devices consist of dumb terminals and printers as well as
> PC's with the Synapse emulation product.
>
> So we take a power hit and ALL user devices drop - since there is no UPS
> protection for any of them - but the communications stuff stays up. BUT,
> the APPC sessions for the control unit(s) drop and eventually reset once
> a user device comes back up power-wise.
>
> So I assume in a configuration like this that the control until polls
> for ANY device and all is OK if it finds one, otherwise it "drops"  ?
>
> I ask, because it would be REAL easy to stick a dumb terminal in the
> wiring closet, attached to the UPS, etc. so there would ALWAYS have a
> user devices with power (?).
>
> This would eliminate the 10+ minute "recycle" time at the larger
> branches when they have a power problem.
>
> Can anyone confirm this ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck
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