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To: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net>
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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@cdrom.com>
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In message <199504210319.XAA01212@ns1.win.net>, Mark Hittinger writes:
>There was an interesting little device on a stack of routers that I saw
>in town.

>It was a telephone power switch.  The routers were plugged into this 
>black box that was plugged into the ac.  There was a phone line plugged
>into this black box.  

>You could dial the black box, punch in a code, and it would power cycle
>the router stack.

We are seriously thinking about this ourselves, but with a AC powered
cell phone rather than a conventional land-line phone. For one reason.
It may be a PoP, but running another phone line in there would be expensive,
and cell phones & access rates are dirt cheap now.

Gary