[asterisk-users] Major Digium Card Problems

[Stephen Bosch]

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-