RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering po int speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Williams, Jeff
Not really a WTF on my part, but... Many years ago I was hand tracing a cable in a data center due to the usual lack of docs and ensuing spaghetti factory. Said cable went under the three foot raised floor, so I dove in. I'd been going for a while and was getting concerned that I'd

RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering po int speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread rwcrowe
I use to work for a growing .com before it went down. One project was to move the company from 5 or 6 suites in an executive campus to a newly built building about 10 miles down the road. Our IT team oversaw the construction of the datacenter from soup to nuts. We went through the whole drill

RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...

2004-07-08 Thread Edward Lewis
-Original Message- Which almost begs the question - what's the oddest WTF?? anybody's willing to admit finding under a raised floor, or up in a ceiling or cable chase or similar location? (Feel free to change names to protect the guilty if need be:) In a job long ago, at a gov't

RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...

2004-07-08 Thread Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS
Steve wrote: water - 8 of it Scary stuff - was that at Murray Hill? My department at Holmdel inherited a computer lab with various Vaxen, and more obvious problem under the raised floor was too much cable to get all the tiles to stay down. The less obvious problems had to do with unbalanced

Re: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...

2004-07-08 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS writes: Steve wrote: water - 8 of it Scary stuff - was that at Murray Hill? Yes, in Building 5. There was also a long length of thick coax down the hill to the main complex -- it wasn't easy to get nice, standard fiber in 1982