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RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags
From: "R. Benjamin Kessler" <Ben.Kessler () zenetra com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:15:28 +0000
Quality Union work! -----Original Message----- From: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidelman () meetinghouse net] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 3:29 PM Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Eric Wieling wrote:For a while we have had a customer with some lines which go down every time it rains. We put in the trouble ticket, a couple of days later Verizon says the issue is resolved...until the next time it rains. The customer sent us some pictures today of the pole outside their office. The repair appears to be wrapping some plastic bags around something up on the pole. Here is link to the pictures the customer sent us, in case anyone in the mood for a good scare. http://rock.nyigc.net/verizon/If I didn't see the loops of electrical tape holding the whole works together I'd say that was a squirrel nest. The two aerial runs that appear to be using each other to turn a corner (right above the plastic-and-electrical-tape mess in the top picture) is an especially nice and creative touch. I sincerely hope the smaller of the two aerials is not a lashing wire. jm"well *there's* your problem"s
Hey looks totally professional to me. After all, black tape is the network engineer's equivalent of duck tape, and, as we all know, duck tape holds the universe together! -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Current thread:
- Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Eric Wieling (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags glen wiley (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Justin M. Streiner (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Miles Fidelman (Aug 20)
- RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags R. Benjamin Kessler (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags William Allen Simpson (Aug 21)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Miles Fidelman (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Jon Lewis (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Harry Hoffman (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Joel Esler (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Justin M. Streiner (Aug 20)
- RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Eric Wieling (Aug 20)
- RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Mike Walter (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Joel Esler (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Joe Greco (Aug 20)
- Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Aled Morris (Aug 20)
- RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags Otis L. Surratt, Jr. (Aug 20)