A war story of mine... In (I think '98 or '99) when Global Crossing was just getting their network going I was working for Lucent as the Senior Resident Engineer overseeing their deployment of Lucent ATM switches world-wide. This was at GC's main NOC in Southfield, MI. Their operations spanned 3 floors of random suites in an office building along a fiber run. They had about 20,000sqft of office space there, and then another ~50,000 sqft of space on the other floors for the switches and related gear/servers/etc. Not that this relates to my story, but you couldn't get into the office space area without a badge and sometimes a PIN... All the server/switch room suites generally had their doors propped open, and just anyone could walk in.
As the operation grew, more servers; switches; etc were brought in. This increase in heat load required an increase in cooling capacity. Of course, this was planned for, and their facilities guys had dry 4" copper pipes stubbed out in the main computer room. So, the plumber comes in to pipe these stubbed-out pipes into the new Liebert unit. He cuts one of the end caps off the supply line with a recip saw and water comes GUSHING out... of a 4" pipe. This is about 10 feet from RACKS of Sparc servers (back in the days when a Sparc Ultra 10K was worth something ;) ). By the time they got it under control there was about 2" of water on the floor (non-raised floor), and dozens of Sparcs full of water. I could fill a weekend with stories of GC's crazy operations... I remember walking in there at first, just taking their whole operation in and saying "there is NO way a company can operate like this..." > -----Original Message----- > > Any horror or success stories to share? > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss