On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 07:52:30AM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > > Sure. But we were talking about installers who do it *wrong*. > > -- jr 'at least, *I* was' a
> Luckily, I was trained by a guy that had been doing telcom work for > forty years. He used to be a lineman in the Philippines (no bucket > trucks there, all pole climbing). > > He came to the US and worked in CA as a phone system installer. An > absolute perfectionist. Almost to the point of being annoying but being > his "apprentice" was more valuable than anything else I could imagine. Every business inside-wire guy I *met* in the early 80s was like that, and that was *GTE*. :-) > Grounding, perfect. All mounted equipment perfectly level, all wiring > and cross connects perfect. Being from LA, he taught me to always leave > a loop or slack in crossconnects for earthquakes and several feet of > extra coiled cable in the ceiling just in case a block needed to be > moved down the road. If anything was "ugly" or not perfect, he would > re-do the whole thing. I don't know how many 66 blocks I had to > re-terminate to a 25 pair cable because it was not "pretty enough". Yay! > Anyways, most "data" guys do not understand this stuff. It would > certainly make a great chapter in a future Asterisk book if the "data" > guys took the time to read and understand it. Maybe a short segment at > AstriCon or something on AsteriskTV? Indeed. > I had the great fortune of being a "data" guy with several years of > telco experience, mostly working with a top notch phone system installer. > > Now, I can go into any telco closet and know quite a bit about the > installer's ability and work ethic. Yep. Course, some of them aren't up to it anymore, though I did see a CLEC installer do a Bell-quality job a couple weeks ago. Cheers -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
