A good principle is to only let fiber links into your buildings.
This is especially a good idea with roof mounted satellite or
P2P microwave links, which otherwise are basically lightening rods
attached to your routers / rf equipment / whatever. I thought this
was a PITA when I first encountered it with the Navy but it
works and saves a lot of grief.
On Jul 22, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Daniel Senie wrote:
At 11:56 AM 7/22/2004, you wrote:
Have anyone experienced hardware failure related to electrical spikes
coming into your datacenters or equipment locations via the telco
facilities? I am referring specifically to copper facilities for
DS1's, etc. I know that the telco must maintain good grounding, but
sometimes when you get hit with a few Gigavolts worth of electrical
energy not much will help you. Whatever the case, has anyone had any
experience good or otherwise with surge protection for their Telcom
circuits? I am looking at this unit below as a possible solution.
Rule #1, don't trust the telco or the power company, or anyone else
feeding wires into your building to do a good job keeping you safe
from surges.
A client of mine has what used to be a CSU/DSU... now has surface
mount components missing and the like. They hadn't installed a surge
protector on the T-1. They had covered the power and the antenna
coaxes at the site. Only the T-1 line was unprotected. Lightning will
find that one path you've not protected.
The cost of installing a surge protector is unlikely to impact your
bottom line. One successful lightning strike on the other hand will
hurt quite a bit, and probably happen at 4AM just to be more annoying.
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
