At 11:04 a.m. 1/07/2008, Matthew Poole wrote:
| Its a nice cheap solution, and you know the performance of their backup. | Yeah, I think that was kind of what Vector were hoping for. But a lot of their terminating switches are buried in basement rooms to which only the building manager has a key. I know that we had quite a few instances of banging heads on walls trying to get access to put our kit in with Vector's, because the keys to the appropriate room were hard to locate.
Ah - access - the other bane of a utility's life. Get yourself a "tradesmans key" There are endless stories of how access was "obtained" during fault conditions. Requires copious quantities of beer to bring them out. In Wellington the MED would leave a building without power if the substation didn't have an external door with an MED lock fitted. Thats when the building was being built. The Electricity Act used to give all sorts of powers, just as the Telecommunications Act gives powers to network operators. These powers really are needed to make things work. I've used them 3 times in 30 years. The tradesmans key gets used most weeks :-)