-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dean Pemberton wrote: | Yep - I can hear it now... "We're cheaper than the Telcos though." | | And thats true, but I think the MetroE guys need to be offering a wider | range of SLAs. | People are coming to rely on them more and more and it's not always made | clear to the customers what the risks of a particular technology is. | Businesses are also far more cognisant of the economic dangers associated with loss of power. If they get told that in a power outage their internet goes away, they understand that. If they're told that they can guard against the outage at their end with a relatively inexpensive UPS, they'll understand that too. But if they're not told, then they can't take steps to mitigate the risk. The ideal situation is, as has been suggested, to get the CPE plugged into a generator-backed UPS. That requires knowledge on the part of the people who would be supplying the UPS and the generator, though. - -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIaZ1mTdEtTmUCdpwRAnWlAKCBW3GCiJwMCvOKCDAH48ciou5lEwCdG0gI yVnI/CqvmPavZh+wDPMoETs= =J7u9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----