Re: Cabling Fun (Was Re: Tape backup solutions)

Just goes to show that it's everywhere - always easier/cheaper to run new and
leave old. The building I'm in now, WAY before I got here had a System/3 (?) I
think; so there is still co-ax cable all over the place... Add to that at least
one (if not 2) old phone systems with "unique" cable before our Rolm PBX and 
some
of the troughs in the floors are IMPOSSIBLE to run cable through unless you DO
clean out the old <BG>...

Chuck

PaulMmn wrote:

> >PaulMmn wrote: (stuff ledeleted):
> >
> ><Of course, once our network is in, most of the Twinax goes away.  Amazing
> >how few
> >cables an Ethernet configuration uses!   ie, -=ONE=-   (: >
> >
> >Yep, we've been actively replacing terminals with PC's over the last 4 - 5
> >years
> >and only have about 60 or so twin-ax terminals or printers around locally
> >- so we
> >have TON (literally <BG>) of twin-ax cable in those "sturdy ole" false
> >ceilings...
> >:-)
> >
> >Chuck
>
> Rumour has it that the World Trade Center has 'computer floor' everywhere
> on all floors.
>
> Story goes that you can walk down some hallways and feel the floor 'give'
> as your scrunch the overabundance of cables back down.  All the changes /
> additions / corrections are usually handled by installing a new cable,
> rather than tracing/removing the old one.  When a floor is vacated a crew
> spends however long pulling out -all- the cables and starting over.
>
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
>
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