Surge Protection

Thu Jul 22 17:53:55 UTC 2004

Daniel Senie wrote:

> The cost of installing a surge protector is unlikely to impact your 
> bottom line. One successful lightning strike on the other hand will hurt 
> quite a bit, and probably happen at 4AM just to be more annoying.

Yes... we had a strike hit a remote mountain POP via the T1. From the 
router it managed to propogate onto the switch and from the switch onto 
the connected hosts and caused a catastrophic failure. Fortunately the 
hosts mainly lost their NICs.

We have since purchased some polyphaser surge protectors. Can't remember 
if this was the vendor or not:

http://www.comm-omni.com/polyweb/t1.htm

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