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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Fiber Optic Support
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.193414.29639@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:34:14 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
- References: <01GQZFSK3B9S00081V@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU>
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- In article <01GQZFSK3B9S00081V@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU>, JOHNNY@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU writes:
- >
- > Our company has 5 manufacturing plants with fiber-based LANs.
- > Recently, a careless employee at one of these locations broke one
- > of the fibers and our only recourse was to contract out for the
- > repair which ended up taking nearly a week to accomplish. This has
- > prompted the discussion of whether we should try to handle this type
- > of thing next time. My question then is: Does anyone out there do
- > their own fiber termination, repair, etc.? If so, I'd like to hear
- > details about training, equipment costs, and whatever else might
- > be involved. Thanks for your help.
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- The best suggesting I've heard is to run redudant pairs/lengths along different
- paths, since the glass is (relatively) cheap.
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