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VoIP and power outages (Score:1)

by Limbic Region (3985)

When I first got VoIP several years ago through my cable company (huge discount for having phone + cable + internet), they did not provide any type of battery backup and my UPS was already strained with my 22 inch monitor and honking tower.

I recently switched to a new cable provider and was suprised that the cable modem and phone MTA are now in the same device with 9 hours of onboard battery backup. The only draw back is that you need to use a corded phone because most cordless phones won't function withou
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  by perigrin (3495)
  
  Vonage themselves do not. But high on my wishlist now is a pair (my network is fairly spread out with the voip box on the upstairs switch, and the cable modem and main router in the basement with the kurobox) of UPSes.

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