May 21, 2003
My new DS1s
On the other side of the partition at work is Special Services -- those PacBell Techs who install DS0, DS1, and the new gigabit service. They do not do phones, LANs, and stuff like that. I do phones, LANs and stuff like that -- I do not do DS1.
Yesterday I pick up my load, finally take a good hard look at the service order, and call dispatch. "This is a Hi-Cap order. OCS does not do Hi-Cap. This needs to be routed to Special Services." So they did.
My room circuit, which connects from the HiCap Network Interface Unit (NUI) (which is the hand-off from PacBell to the Customer) was due today. So I stop by about late morning and sure enough the Special's Tech is sitting in my terminal room testing my new Hi-Caps. 'Hi Shawn! how's it going?' She's swapping bit patterns with some guy on a test board somewhere with her megabuck test set. Which is why I don't do my own Hi-Caps. Be silly to give me a megabuck test set that I would use maybe twice year on average.
To Shawn's right is the old LAN equipment -- rack-mounted GDC-553's, a couple of Cisco 2500's, a couple of 3Com switches. The new DS1's will connect to new Cisco 2610's and a trio of Cisco 3524 switches. Why aren't they mounted yet? They're "in the mail." Should have had them this morning. Didn't. *SIGH* LAN is supposed to be LIVE friday week.
The skinny picture far right is the new NIU's. My "room circuit" will consist of a patch cord from the RJ-45 in the NIU to the Rj-45 in the back of the router. The cord is the easy part, the hard part is placing the router, which means placing a rack, getting power to the rack, etc..
T1 is DS1. DS1 is not always T1. T1's ran on two pairs. This new stuff is one pair to deliver 1,544,000 bits per second up and down.
Posted by at May 21, 2003 09:38 PM