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Emergency Power Conference Monday, November 22,
2004 Bell Labs Network Reliability Security
Office Washington, DC

• Session 2 Identification of Factors Affecting
• How Much Back-up Power Is Required at a Remote
  Site

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Session 2 Identification of Factors Affecting
How Much Back-up Power Is Required at a Remote
Site

• Facilitator John Stogoski, Sprint NRIC
• Scribe Bill Hitchcock, Sprint NRIC

John Mardula, T-Mobile Steven Dworkin,
BatteryCorp Dan McMenamin, VZW Don Klinger,
ATT Rex Miller, Motorola Darren Colvin, US
Cellular George Tong, Nextel Rick Kemper,
CTIA Bob Saint, NRECA Richard Kafka, PEPCO
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Session 2 Identification of Factors Affecting
How Much Back-up Power Is Required at a Remote
Site
Key Findings

• Critical Customers
• Hospitals/Public Safety/Govt Facilities/Universit
  ies/Broadcast Media
• Linkage between customers and associated network
  elements
• Grade of Service
• Escalating Expectations of society
• Paradigm Shift (wireless/wireline)
• What is an acceptable level of risk?
• Regulatory/Zoning/Property Mgt issues
• Restrictions in code or lease regarding
  generators
• Access (safety concern)
• Floor loading
• Requirements differ for tech types (Wireline,
  wireless, VoIP)
• Tariffed vs. non-tariffed providers
• Budget
• Business Case (cost of equip vs. revenue loss)
• Cost of technology

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Session 2 Identification of Factors Affecting
How Much Back-up Power Is Required at a Remote
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Key Findings

• Design process for power plants
• Role in telco network (Importance of site)
• Priority classes of sites (eg Hub Site vs. end
  cell)
• Threat Assessment
• Interdependencies (eg wireline backhaul)
• Robustness of network topology
• Environmental factors
• Rural vs. urban location
• Location within power grid (opportunity to work
  with pwr provider proactively)
• Climate control
• Proximity to disaster prone areas
• Coordination b/n Telco, Power Company,
  restoration coordinators
• Proactive vs. reactive
• When/how do you build the relationships?
• Mechanisms for coordination (elec co call
  center, acct rep, fire dept, State/Local EOC,
  Federal agencies)
• Escalation process to follow
• justification criteria
• Ability of pwr company to map/DB critical sites

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Session 2 Identification of Factors Affecting
How Much Back-up Power Is Required at a Remote
Site
Key Findings

• Obstacles to response efforts
• Curfews / Roadblocks
• Permits for transport (especially for interstate
  transport)
• Confiscation of equipment
• Local police
• Telco low on priority list for power restoration

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