[145957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need photographs of IT/Telecom gear/rooms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chip)
Thu Oct 27 15:41:24 2011
In-Reply-To: <4EA9B172.5000202@tiedyenetworks.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:40:28 -0400
From: chip <chip.gwyn@gmail.com>
To: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mike,
You might be able to glean some interesting pictures from:
http://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn
http://www.reddit.com/r/datacenter
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cableporn/
* That's actual cables and racks and such, not cinemax late night video =
=3D)
--chip
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com> wrote=
:
> Greetings,
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I have been given the opportunity to teach the mechanics o=
f the
> Internet to a group of 6 - 12'th grade students, and as an engineer and
> owner of an ISP I have it in mind to really get into this and show these
> kids how, really, all this stuff works and to make it fun and exciting. I
> can't take them on a tour of an ATT central office to show off one of my
> DSLAMs for example, nor can I really show them what a colocation or IX lo=
oks
> like since they are too far away to drive. I was hoping any of you would =
be
> kind enough to provide pictures of these types of environments, especiall=
y
> rack mounted switch/router hardware, fiber optic cabling short and long
> haul, international undersea cable anchor points, or anything else that
> would make for a good slide presentation in this context. These kids are =
in
> a very rural community where marijuana is the main source of income
> (followed by meth), and have little access to adults doing this type of
> stuff in the real world. My focus will also include introducing these kid=
s
> to the concept of having something better such as a career in information
> technology and talking about ways they themselves might get involved and =
on
> track that way, so these photographs would be extremely helpful to light
> their young minds and get them thinking about their futures.
>
> Thank you all.
>
> Mike-
>
>
--=20
Just my $.02, your mileage may vary,=A0 batteries not included, etc....
