[72668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Surge Protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lewinski)
Thu Jul 22 13:54:50 2004
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:53:55 -0600
From: Mike Lewinski <mike@rockynet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040722130224.07588ec0@mail.amaranth.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Daniel Senie wrote:
> The cost of installing a surge protector is unlikely to impact your
> bottom line. One successful lightning strike on the other hand will hurt
> quite a bit, and probably happen at 4AM just to be more annoying.
Yes... we had a strike hit a remote mountain POP via the T1. From the
router it managed to propogate onto the switch and from the switch onto
the connected hosts and caused a catastrophic failure. Fortunately the
hosts mainly lost their NICs.
We have since purchased some polyphaser surge protectors. Can't remember
if this was the vendor or not:
http://www.comm-omni.com/polyweb/t1.htm
Google has +400 matches on the exact phrase "T1 surge protector"
