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Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms
From: Julien Goodwin <nanog () studio442 com au>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:59:58 +1000
On 23/9/21 3:01 am, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote:
On 9/22/21 10:45 AM, Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE wrote:Half-penny pinching “mah powah” landlords are especially annoying in a cosmic senseI know someone who had a bit of a different experience. Someone, purportedly the telco but I'm not sure who, had telco equipment in a building and the batteries hadn't been serviced in the better part of a decade and there was a strong smell of battery acid in the room. I heard that building management put a hard line of something like 36 hours for the equipment owner to address the problem, or at least respond with an acceptable time line, lest the building electrician would remove the batteries as a health and safety concern. The equipment owner materialized and removed the batteries within 72 hours. The bulk of the equipment was removed the following month.
Potential acid leaks are nothing to sneeze at. Maybe two years ago we were doing an audit to see if we could find where all the analog phone lines we were paying for in a building were. As part of this was some waiting around in the MDF room while one of my coworkers dug through patch logs. I noticed what looked near certain to be internal battery acid leakage within one of the telco racks in the room, called the telco on their infrastructure faults line (outsourced to a foreign country of course, but still), and *within an hour* had a tech outside the building. A friend of mine has also had success pointing out (to the same normally recalcitrant telco) that the building was being demolished, and their equipment was going whether they liked it or not, which solved a then months-ongoing problem.
Current thread:
- Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms jray06 (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms sronan (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Grant Taylor via NANOG (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Shawn L via NANOG (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Matt Erculiani (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Julien Goodwin (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms sronan (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms William Herrin (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Seth Mattinen (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE (Sep 24)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Aaron Wendel (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Brandon Svec via NANOG (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Tim Howe (Sep 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms jray06 (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Tim Howe (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE (Sep 22)
- Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms Tim Howe (Sep 22)