... a shoe was lost. blah blah blah the Battle was lost.
Losing the battle is not an option, so when I find that I cannot get there from here I switch to an alternate.
In this case, the Avaya cutover was supose to happen after the LAN cutover. The Avaya phones were to be connected to the blue Cat-5 cable, patched to a voice panel in the Cat-5 patch rack, which would take it to the Avaya demarcation. Except... the space I need for the voice jacks is occupied by the Cisco switches which I cannot remove until I cut over to the new Foundry switches. Before I can cut the second floor I have to cut the first floor to free up my long patch cables. That's not happening because I can't work overtime so I can only switch the LANs on a Sunday as a tour change with a Friday O-day so no overtime is involved; and there are not enough weekends left.
So the Avaya phones on the second floor will have to run on the old cat-3 cable, which is acceptable to the standards. Except that the cat-3 25-pair cables have an adapter with a single jack for the ISDN phone. I need to switch to a multi-jack adapter. Fortunately we had a pile of single-line KTS adapters in the supply room which will work just fine. No problem. Have two helpers to put the phones on the desk.
They showed up a little while ago with an adapter and the Avaya supplied cord. The Avaya phone only uses one pair of wires. Pair one. Any phone cord will work just fine. My adapters have six pin jacks. The supplied Avaya cord has eight pin plugs. *SIGH* Put the phones in without the cords and I'll get a hundred or so cords to use with the adapters that I need to use 'cause the LAN isn't allowed to cut first.
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Did I mention that the Avaya Tech was supposed to come out to intall cards and correct their wiring. Requested for Friday but whom I said would be acceptable Monday as we would be running cables and could let them slide a day. Shoudn't have. It's Tuesday and no Tech. I can't run my cross connects until Avaya gives me my blocks back so I can run my cables.
(edit: Jim from Avaya showed up, installed the cards and reterminated the cables; finished around 1:30. The conference call on the project ended for Curtis White and I as being the ones to assign which phone lines go where. Actually not the job of either of us, just more of planners and implementors leaving the planning to the installers.)