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

[rwcrowe () comcast net]

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 over test patch panels and drops and made sure everthing 
worked. The only thing we didnt have to do (until the day we moved the servers over) was to look under the newly 
constructed raised floor. Well, long story short, we started moving the servers over and pulling up tiles to run the 
cables for them and behold we found a 12-pack and a half frozen pizza. Apparently the some of the workers had decided 
during the construction to put some beer and food under the floor to keep it cold and forgot about it. :)


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rwcrowe () comcast net


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> 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 accidentally gotten hold of the wrong cable, so I called 
> back to my co-worker to give it a tug. No response. I decided to come up 
> for air and try again. I had crawled under two equipment rows and into the 
> operator area and I can only imagine what that operator thought was 
> happening when I just popped up through the floor next to her. Judging by 
> the yelp and the look I got it was probably not good. Still gives me a 
> chuckle thinking about it. 
>
> Jeff 
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of 
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:43 AM 
> To: Leo Bicknell 
> Cc: nanog () merit edu 
> Subject: Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed 
> publicly available?] 
>
>
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:46:49 EDT, Leo Bicknell said: 
>
> > Everyone running their cable wherever they want with no controls, and 
> > abandoning it all in place makes a huge mess, and is one way to think 
> > about it. 
>
> While clearing out the space that eventually ended up being repurposed for a 
> supercomputer, we encountered a small run of Ethernet Classic - the 
> thickwire stuff. We never did figure out how or why it got there (I doubt 
> that anybody stashed it down there just for storage stretched straight out, 
> with 3 vampire taps still attached), as the location in question was still 
> cow pasture when we decided that all new cable would be thinwire (and we 
> certainly had plenty of THAT under the floor, buried under all the cat-5...) 
> And we're a small enough shop with low enough personnel turnover that 
> rounding up *all* the possible co-conspirators and getting somebody to admit 
> "Ahh... now there's a story attached to that wire..." usually doesn't take 
> more than 3 or 4 pitchers of Guinness... ;) 
>
> 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....:) 
>
>
>
>
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