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Sycamore equipment does not have orderwire. :( And we don't breakout with the muxes that do at every location. ----- Original Message ----- From: "blitz" <[email protected]> To: "Vincent J. Bono" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:43 PM Subject: Re: Bet on with my boss > > We have this wonderful invention called two-way radio. (grin) Our repeater > has an autopatch, so you can hold a conversation from any landline to the > mobile unit in the field or vice versa. Its been real helpful, like when > aligning microwave dishes. > > At 18:04 6/21/02 -0400, you wrote: > > >We recently had a piece of equipment fail outside of Bronson, FL. This was > >in a regeneration hut, 50 miles from almost anywhere useful. There is no > >cellular service and no POTs in the HUT. The closest employee was a woman > >who although bright was not very familiar with the equipment installed. > >Because the management channel (IP) was still working to the site, an > >engineer here in Quincy, MA was able to step her through fixing the problem > >using nothing but IRC and two-way pager. It took her 35 minutes to correct > >the issue. > > > >Harder than with a phone? Yes. Impossible? No. Without that IP channel > >running? It would have taken closer to an hour and a half by my guess but > >still doable. Smoke signals or semaphore? I won't hazard a guess. > > > >-vb > > Some sort of orderwire channel might be helpful in this situation as well, > as long as the fiber is up, youll have a voice grade line to the NOC. >
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