Sprint was the first company to run intercontinental optical fiber courtesy of a very, very large contract with the DoD in the late 1970s/early 1980s. That optical fiber typically followed major interstate highways or railroads, as the utility easement was already laid out and able to accommodate the additional infrastructure.
The optical fiber was buried for numerous reasons, and wherever there was a repeater, booster, network interface or junction it would often be set up in a vault, basically a large sealed concrete room buried underground in this utility easement. This room contained the optical fiber and related equipment and was sealed from the outside using large bombproof doors and blast valves in any opening to the outside (usually exhaust and inlet air.) Our equipment (standby generator) would usually be in an enclosure or small equipment building above ground at the site to provide backup power in the event of a utility failure. You had to know the exact location for many of these as they would be in rural areas along rail right of ways with minimal road access. This predated consumer GPS’, so you would usually get written directions with some sort of visual points and bearings to determine the location. One would get pretty handy with a compass after visiting some of these sites…. -D > On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Andrew Strasfogel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fiber vault?? > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I felt sort of bad about selling it, but I was young, stupid and greedy. I > knew the guy who bought it and he took very good care of the car and didn’t > alter it in any way. I seem to recall having some ownership in passing on > the promise I made to Mom when I bought it. > > And this was pre-Internet and cell phone days, too. > > You would be amazed at the stuff you saw out in the boonies while driving to > a remote microwave site or fiber vault. > > Dan > > > On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Wonderful story with a very happy ending. All you have to do was repeat > > that every week and voila - no need for a day job. > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
