Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:22:34PM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > >> I try not to spring any surprises on my customers. If it is a new >> punch-out, I will make sure that building maintenance is aware of the >> requirements. They are usually very helpful for these kind of issues. >> > > Sure. But we were talking about installers who do it *wrong*. > > Cheers, > -- 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. 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". 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? 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. Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ --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
