[178778] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: optical gear cooling requirements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Thu Mar 5 10:12:58 2015
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From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@corp.crocker.com>, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 15:09:57 +0000
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It is interesting where this conversation turned. But for history's sake...
NAC started on PM2e with Microcom's, and then USR Sportster. I remember USR=
sending us PROM chips to change from 28.8 to 33.6. After that, PM3's. We w=
ere early PM3 users, working with Megazone on an almost continuous basis to=
work on bugs. We tried the PM4, that went nowhere. Then we tried Assured A=
ccess - it had promise but ultimately was no good. Ultimately, went to used=
AS5800's with ChDS3 cards, which ran from a long time ago until just a cou=
ple months ago when we finally (and literally) pulled the plug on dialup (I=
think we had about 30 active accounts from a peak of over 35,000).=20
There was a time where NAC was by far the largest customer of the LEC porti=
on of Sprint in NJ, with two DS3's of PRI's out of NWTNJ alone (look that u=
p, it's in the woods in 07860). Sprint had to actually buy software upgrade=
s for the DMS we were out of to accommodate a hunt-group that large (or, so=
we were told). This was after we had about 700 POTS lines to a house and t=
hey begged us to move to the CO.=20
Ahh, the good old days. And it is amazing how well it all worked, in retros=
pect, and how much fun the business was. Then you see things like "Net Neut=
rality", and it makes me want to hide in the woods and shed a tear.
> >> We used Livingston Portmaster 3 back in the day. Front to back
> >> ventilation, ran cool as a cucumber, plug it in and it just worked.
> >> Awesome gear until Lucent bought the company to kill the product in
> >> favor of their Ascend TNT space heaters.
