Am Freitag, den 11.05.2007, 18:44 -0400 schrieb Jon Pounder: > just out of curiousity - anyone ever hijack pairs and get away with it ? > (do your own cross connects on the street and utilize some crossconnect > all within one branch of F1 cable out of the CO ?) > > I've been tempted in the past, and know that at least around here I would > probably get away with it for quite some time before anyone actually cared > enough to investigate.
I know a setup where some kind of "cable hijacking" took place. A small office nearby had a regular ISDN/BRI line, with a small PBX and two or three analogue phones on it locally. One of the PBX extensions was connected to another telco copper pair (small houses usually have between 2 and about 16 pairs into the basement, depending on when the cable was laid), which led back to the Telco and came out at the office chief's home second copper pair, 30 meters away, other side of the street. I have been told that his predecessor had a son working for the then-German (in the 80s) Post office.... ;-) Pityfully this "solution" disappeared when a truck ran down the telco switchbox while reversing, must have been in 2002 or 2003. Just disconnected that 1 meter tall grey cupboard from the ground, leaving lots of cables dangling.... and while recabling, they (telco) obviously did not care to reconnect that "special local exchange". The solution was to buy a DECT repeater and wireless handset, works like a charm in this situation. I have to admit I did not research this in full, but I assume that tampering with the "Post" property would have given you a night in jail - or left you without a job or pension plan, in this case, if you were caught. With deregulation, this probably softened a bit. Nowadays my impression is that the repair technicians are out-sourced service guys with a too-tight schedule - do not touch anything that is not necessary to be touched, because that might take time to be fixed or cost reimbursements or whatever. Documentation of cabling is existant (well, we are in Germany, after all): as it seems, it has been filed in a basement cupboard, locked, in an unused toilet room, guarded by wild dogs... at least service people tend to not have access to line whereabouts documentation, and no intention to ask too much questions. If the installation works, they just let it be. BTW this reminded me of these two BOFH episodes: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/bofh_2005_episode_7/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/13/bofh_lights_out_for_contractors/ BR Anselm _______________________________________________ --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
