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> if a backhoe decides to dig through the fiber line, congratulations your shop just got shut down until it works agian. … Back in the day if the power went out
by culturestate 4y ago
> if a backhoe decides to dig through the fiber line, congratulations your shop just got shut down until it works agian. … Back in the day if the power went out you could open up a receipt book and a ledger and keep taking payments until it came back on, now you can sit and twiddle your thumbs.
This is nothing a good UPS and a standby 5G modem couldn’t handle. Digital systems can be made reliable and redundant, but most people don’t want to go through the effort (or expense) to make it happen.