OK, I remember now - thanks. Andrew Ex Sprint customer
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________ 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
