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On Jul 5, 2004, at 8:35 PM, Tony Li wrote: I'm wondering why you think that the fiber over the ceiling tile is somehow less tracked, maintained, monitored, documented, etc., than any other fiber in the network?On Jul 5, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:You need to take into account all of the aspects of the complexity that you introduce when youOn Jul 5, 2004, at 2:02 PM, vijay gill wrote:Sure it does. The question is: "How far does it scale?" Nothing scales to infinity, and very, very few things do not scale past the degenerate case of 1.Throwing ethernet cables over the ceiling does not scale. Put another way: Just because I am not paying someone 1000s of $$ a month to watch it for me does not mean the human element is ignored. In fact, I have seen many cases where people lost track of interconnects where they were paying lots of money for someone else to watch them. So maybe the strange ones are better.... =) If you do not want to throw cables over the ceiling in your network, then by all means do not. I have repeated many times here and elsewhere: Your network, your decision. And for those of us who can track & maintain zero-dollar interconnects, please do not begrudge us the cost savings. -- TTFN, patrick
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