[asterisk-users] Major Digium Card Problems

[Jay R. Ashworth]

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
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