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I've smelled the diesel fumes and heard the backup generators near my city's old telephone/internet central during a city blackout a bit over a decade ago, so at least those stay on during blackouts, but you'd think that various boxes along the way to the central might need power, right?
Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON)
Between you, the Optinal Network Terminal (ONT)
and the central, Optical Network Line (ONL) there is only glass, fibers and prisms.
It's all like an old school ethernet hub, or "thin ethernet" coaxial.