Need photographs of IT/Telecom gear/rooms

Thu Oct 27 20:14:49 UTC 2011

Loads of good images on Flickr too: http://www.flickr.com/groups/datacenter/

On 10/27/2011 10:10 AM, Landon Stewart wrote:
> I'd probably lift some images from google images personally...
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> EG: data center - Google Search http://bit.ly/u9fPMd
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> On 27 October 2011 12:30, Mike<mike-nanog at tiedyenetworks.com>  wrote:
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>> Greetings,
>>
>>         I have been given the opportunity to teach the mechanics of the
>> Internet to a group of 6 - 12'th grade students, and as an engineer and
>> owner of an ISP I have it in mind to really get into this and show these
>> kids how, really, all this stuff works and to make it fun and exciting. I
>> can't take them on a tour of an ATT central office to show off one of my
>> DSLAMs for example, nor can I really show them what a colocation or IX looks
>> like since they are too far away to drive. I was hoping any of you would be
>> kind enough to provide pictures of these types of environments, especially
>> rack mounted switch/router hardware, fiber optic cabling short and long
>> haul, international undersea cable anchor points, or anything else that
>> would make for a good slide presentation in this context. These kids are in
>> a very rural community where marijuana is the main source of income
>> (followed by meth), and have little access to adults doing this type of
>> stuff in the real world. My focus will also include introducing these kids
>> to the concept of having something better such as a career in information
>> technology and talking about ways they themselves might get involved and on
>> track that way, so these photographs would be extremely helpful to light
>> their young minds and get them thinking about their futures.
>>
>> Thank you all.
>>
>> Mike-
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