Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Sinatra" > On 11/15/13 13:25, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > You seem to be taking this awfully personally, though, Mike; did you > > *set* the policies and procedures I'm scoffing at? > > I am NOT TAKING IT PERSONALLY DAMMIT!!! Well, jeez, Loueeze... :-)

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/15/13 13:25, Jay Ashworth wrote: > You seem to be taking this awfully personally, though, Mike; did you > *set* the policies and procedures I'm scoffing at? I am NOT TAKING IT PERSONALLY DAMMIT!!! Okay, now being serious (note clever way of avoiding using emoticons while pointing out that

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: ... > Yeah; cranes are a bitch. :-) No, it is arranging for a rigging crew and the safety plan reviews for the lift (at least in any major company/institution which wants to stay on the happy side of OSHA; and has consul that suggests that the

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Sinatra" > >> Caveats: > > > > [ 17 pages of caveats elided ] > > I realize I am wordy, but four bullet points (one of which involves > apparel) != "17 pages of caveats". Nice try. The rest of the email was > inline replies to Justin's points. We're

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/15/13 12:29, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Michael Sinatra" > >> UC Berkeley installed 3 CEVs (Controlled Environment Vaults) below >> ground on campus about 10-15 years ago. One of them houses one of the >> two main fiber penetrations to campus, including DWD

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Sinatra" > UC Berkeley installed 3 CEVs (Controlled Environment Vaults) below > ground on campus about 10-15 years ago. One of them houses one of the > two main fiber penetrations to campus, including DWDM gear, > patch-panels, border routers, even pa

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
Hi Justin and Roy: On 11/13/13 12:05, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Roy hockett wrote: > >> Has anyone ever used a below grade vault for housing fiber cross >> connects? >> >> We have to move a fiber interconnect facility due to the current >> building being demolished. If you

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 11/13/13 11:51 PM, Roy Hockett wrote: I am guessing due to esthetics the below ground vault was selected, we just learned of this selection and thus my query to this group to find other that have dealt with similar situations and if so, experience base recommendations, and things to be aware

RE: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-14 Thread Sam Roche
age- From: Thomas [mailto:grave...@swbell.net] Sent: November-14-13 9:17 AM To: Justin M. Streiner Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points Another option is an above ground cabinet. Many telecoms use them. Thomas L Graves Sent from my IPhone > On No

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-14 Thread Shawn L
There are a couple of ways to do this. If you're going to keep everything below grade in a man hole or cable vault of some type, you definitely need to have it in a sealed splicing enclosure. That means instead of using a patch panel, everything has to be fusion spliced. You'll get less loss bec

RE: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-14 Thread Joe McLeod
nks, Joe -Original Message- From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:strei...@cluebyfour.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:05 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Roy Hockett wrote: > Thank you for comments. Let me clarify t

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas
Another option is an above ground cabinet. Many telecoms use them. Thomas L Graves Sent from my IPhone > On Nov 13, 2013, at 8:04 PM, "Justin M. Streiner" > wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Roy Hockett wrote: >> >> Thank you for comments. Let me clarify the situation. We have a building

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Roy Hockett wrote: Thank you for comments. Let me clarify the situation. We have a building that has been fiber cross connect location and is being demolished. This location has about 20 fiber cable entering where we patch between fiber paths. If we relocated these cros

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-13 Thread Roy Hockett
Thank you for comments. Let me clarify the situation. We have a building that has been fiber cross connect location and is being demolished. This location has about 20 fiber cable entering where we patch between fiber paths. If we relocated these cross connect field to another building and th

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-13 Thread Jeff Kell
You can stick a "splice" in a manhole. You don't want a "patch panel" or cross-connect in that sort of environment, keep that housed inside, somewhere. Jeff On 11/13/2013 7:53 PM, Thomas wrote: > Usually it would spliced outside at the manhole where the fiber meet to go in > the building. Depe

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-13 Thread Thomas
Usually it would spliced outside at the manhole where the fiber meet to go in the building. Depends on the way you want to connect them etc. Thomas L Graves Sent from my IPhone > On Nov 13, 2013, at 2:05 PM, "Justin M. Streiner" > wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Roy hockett wrote: >> >>

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Roy hockett wrote: Has anyone ever used a below grade vault for housing fiber cross connects? We have to move a fiber interconnect facility due to the current building being demolished. If you have I would be interested in talking to you. If there are more appropriate l

OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-13 Thread Roy hockett
Has anyone ever used a below grade vault for housing fiber cross connects? We have to move a fiber interconnect facility due to the current building being demolished. If you have I would be interested in talking to you. If there are more appropriate lists, I would appreciate any suggestions. T