[24596] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Toronto bell canada central office fire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry R. Linneweh)
Tue Jul 20 20:15:12 1999
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:26:02 -0700
From: "Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh@concentric.net>
Reply-To: linneweh@concentric.net
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Now that is a great analogy, I love it, right to the point.
Henry
Sean Donelan wrote:
> wb8foz@nrk.COM (David Lesher) writes:
> >a Telephone Company building, with Telephone Company rules and
> >craft people. Much as I despised dealing with them; they had a
> >Book and followed it. They wrote their Book after attending the
> >School of Hard Knocks. It showed.
>
> The mistake is assuming there is only one "Book." Even telephone
> companies make this mistake. There Book isn't always the best way
> to do some things.
>
> There is/was the Book according to Ma Bell (now telcordia).
> There is/was the Book according to IBM.
> There is/was the Book according to DoD.
> There is/was the Book according to USDA (yes, the US Department of
> Agriculture has a book on how to build a Central Office).
> There are the (many, many) Books according to ITU/ISO/ANSI/T1.
>
> The interesting thing is none of them completely agree with any
> of the others. You need a good understanding of the assumptions
> which went into the book. If you plan to put data processing
> equipment into a facility, Bellcore/Telcordia may not be the
> best template. If you plan to put a 5ESS into a facility IBM
> may not be the best template. If you plan to put both into
> the same facility, things get a bit more interesting.
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
