<style type="text/css"><br />.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }<br />.flickr-yourcomment { }<br />.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }<br />.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<br /></style><br /><br /><div class="flickr-frame"><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshb/87167480/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/40/87167480_7fa6199f41.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshb/87167480/">Fios Power Supply and Battery Backup</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/joshb/">JoshB</a>.</span><br /></div><br /> <br /><p class="flickr-yourcomment"><br /> The power supply had to be mounted inside the garage, as well as the attached battery backup unit. The battery should be good for 8-10 hours in a power failure, and needs to be replaced about once a year at a cost of $22.<br /><br /><br /><br />The battery backup is necessary to keep phone service running in the event of a power outage. With copper, line voltage is provided by the same line as the phone signal, but you can't provide power over fiber optic line, thus the need for a battery backup.<br /><br /><br /><br />If I put my wireless router on a UPS, I could theoretically also still have fiber broadband connectivity during a power outage. I'll have to test that one out. 
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