Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > 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.
Guys -- this is where my nostalgia comes from. -Stephen- _______________________________________________ --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
