3 ms·
Cell towers have backup generators?
by samlinnfer 1y ago
Cell towers have backup generators?
- Tuna-Fish 1y agoMost of them have batteries. How long they last depends, in my country they can typically manage 4 hours.
- sofixa 1y agoThey still need other infrastructure to get anywhere though (routers and other networking infrastructure).
- throw0101b 1y agoCell towers have batteries and/or generators, with fibre connections to data centres, which also generally have batteries and/or generators.
- xen2xen1 1y agoAlways picture someone with a big can of diesel filling up a generator. Experience says it could be a genny running on natural gas. Had that at work before.
- raxxorraxor 1y agoI think cell phone towers use surprisingly little energy, just a few kW. So even longer term operation should be possible withs bobs backyard generator running on vodka. But I would guess the whole network equipment would draw quite a bit, especially a modern infrastructure.
- rdtsc 1y agoBatteries at least.
- Semaphor 1y agoWe had a (much smaller) regional (Lübeck and Ostholstein) power outage here in Northern Germany in I think 2018 or 19. No mobile internet until everything was restored ~6 hours later, and most of the time no other cell service either.