[CALUG] LINUX & FIOS - backup

[John Hengen]

The battery backup with FIOS is good for about 4 hours of telephone 
service, as I understand it. There is no backup for TV and no backup for 
the internet connection when the 120 volt ac fails./
I know a man who has his FIOS battery backup plugged into a big UPS. He 
also has an automatic start & switchover arrangement which uses a 40 KW 
electric generator to run his house (including the big UPS)./
The optical signals in the fiber are presumably always there. The FIOS 
box on the wall of your house needs electrical power to translate the 
optical signals into electrical signals which are then routed through 
out your house./
I was disappointed to learn that the FIOS cable which runs into your 
house contains an embedded wire. The wire is used only to locate the 
buried cable when repairs are needed. I had looked forward to being 
electrically  isolated from the FIOS system, but no such luck./
John