Famous operational issues
Ben Cannon
ben at 6by7.net
Sun Feb 21 09:47:52 UTC 2021
I’m embarrassed to say, I’ve done this.
Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE
6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC
CEO
ben at 6by7.net
"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”
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> On Feb 19, 2021, at 12:55 AM, Wolfgang Tremmel <wolfgang.tremmel at de-cix.net> wrote:
>
> Do you remember the Cisco HDCI connectors?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCI
>
> I once shipped a Cisco 4500 plus some cables to a remote data center and asked the local guys to cable them for me.
> With Cisco you could check the cable type and if they were properly attached. They were not.
>
> I asked for a check and the local guy confirmed me three times that the cables were properly plugged.
> At the end I gave up, and took the 3 hour drive to the datacenter to check myself.
>
> Problem was that, while the casing of the connector is asymmetrical, the pins inside are symmetrical.
> And the local guy was quite strong.
>
> Yes, he managed to plug in the cables 180° flipped, bending the case, but he got them in.
> He was quite embarrassed when I fixed the cabling problem in 10 seconds.
>
> That must have been 1995 or so....
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
>> On 16. Feb 2021, at 20:37, John Kristoff <jtk at dataplane.org> wrote:
>>
>> Which examples would make up your top three?
>
> --
> Wolfgang Tremmel
>
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