> The above concern have been a major issue with telephone equipment (eg, > central > offices) and the telco's spend a significant amount of money burying very > long > rods in the ground and interconnectng them with the CO hardware using cables > that are larger then 1/4" in diameter (don't remember the guage anymore). > Every row of racks include the heavy ground cabling, and rack paint (etc) > is often times scrapped off between racks to ensure a solid ground. > They use special test equipment to actually measure the implementation.
Yes - the last LEC I worked for grounded every single relay rack to the DC power plant ground with #6 cable. Might be overkill, but the cost of the cable versus a SONET shelf or DLC is definitely worth it. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
