I’m embarrassed to say, I’ve done this. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”
FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149. > On Feb 19, 2021, at 12:55 AM, Wolfgang Tremmel <wolfgang.trem...@de-cix.net> > wrote: > > Do you remember the Cisco HDCI connectors? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCI > > I once shipped a Cisco 4500 plus some cables to a remote data center and > asked the local guys to cable them for me. > With Cisco you could check the cable type and if they were properly attached. > They were not. > > I asked for a check and the local guy confirmed me three times that the > cables were properly plugged. > At the end I gave up, and took the 3 hour drive to the datacenter to check > myself. > > Problem was that, while the casing of the connector is asymmetrical, the pins > inside are symmetrical. > And the local guy was quite strong. > > Yes, he managed to plug in the cables 180° flipped, bending the case, but he > got them in. > He was quite embarrassed when I fixed the cabling problem in 10 seconds. > > That must have been 1995 or so.... > > Wolfgang > > > >> On 16. Feb 2021, at 20:37, John Kristoff <j...@dataplane.org> wrote: >> >> Which examples would make up your top three? > > -- > Wolfgang Tremmel > > Phone +49 69 1730902 0 | wolfgang.trem...@de-cix.net > Executive Directors: Harald A. Summa and Sebastian Seifert | Trade Registry: > AG Cologne, HRB 51135 > DE-CIX Management GmbH | Lindleystrasse 12 | 60314 Frankfurt am Main | > Germany | www.de-cix.net >