Vic, A well put response.
Duane On 14 Feb 1997, Victor L. Boersma wrote: > All these worthy analysts assume that the risk has to be an internal risk. > That > is not the case with distributed equipment. Faulty bonding and grounding in > the > building can cause enormous potential differences in building steel and ground > paths, in case of lightning strikes. Whether you are talking about a PABX or > a > LAN, as soon as you start stringing things together throughout a building, you > can no longer look only at the risks of something > happening in the equipment, you have to look at the risks of something > happening > in the > system. The designer of the equipment may well have been absolutely ignorant > of > what uses the purchaser puts the equipment too. The installer of the > equipment > may be without any clue as too how well the building steel is bonded, etc., > etc. > Therefore, although there is > no way that anyone can or should guarantee absolute safety, the designer of > the > terminal must assume worst case and very rare scenarios. > > > Ciao, > > > Vic > >
