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I went to a car dealership once. They brought me to their "server room" where the PBX was located. It was a closet 3 feet by 6 feet. Inside it was the Definity PBX, Intuiy Audix, 11 Servers, 4 monitors, 6 LAN Switches, in a wall mounted rack. 110 blocks on the wall. In order to get to the wiring you had to stand on a sever or the PBX. There was no AC in this closet. The temp was 100 + degress in there. What a mess.

Hey Liquid....was that dealership located up here in North Jersey???

It sound awful familar......

Over the last 20+ years I've seen just about all of them: quite a few installations relegated to "the cupboard under the stairs", three businesses crammed into a coat closet, the KSUs and IDFs up in the ceiling, and a Focus Elite, with MDF and Telco terminal, in the main office space behind a curtain.

The most unusual, however, was an SL1 in one room, and the MDF around the corner outside the room in the warehouse aera.

After much toning, tracing and hair-pulling we discovered the problem was in this lovely IDF in the ceiling. We later cleaned up this thing, reterminated everthing and managed to get the door closed...





[This message has been edited by dwflood (edited August 22, 2005).]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dwflood:
[B]After much toning, tracing and hair-pulling we discovered the problem was in this lovely IDF in the ceiling. We later cleaned up this thing, reterminated everthing and managed to get the door closed...

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There's a motel in town that has an old Perception with several small IDFs in ungodly hard-to-get at places on the floor--- the Perception is behind a built-in table/cabinet affair that you have to take apart to get to it--but the best deal is in another building --and all the station cables seem to terminate there on about 15 or so 66 blocks--and the SBC d-mark is there (in a basement just past the boiler room---all on a 4x8 old piece of plywood---that swings from two ropes attached to a horizontal water pipe about 8 foot high. You have to hold the plywood or the block while you punch down--or else the plywood swings away from you. It's hilarious!! I was there ONCE and never went back. I should try to get back there & take a picture.

Dang, that's bad. Did you give the 66 block on the right a haircut too?

dw that looks like a dmarc from bellxxxxx.

Cat5 did you ever get that mess straight.

I hope you didn't run on to that one on a Monday morning work order that was only suppose to be a couple hour job.

Thats no demarc, its an IDF at the furthest remote end of a steel mill we took over. Serves about 30 or so phones. We were trying to add a couple new phones and knew that this IDF existed somewhere. When we discovered this fiasco, you should have seen my tech come down out of the ceiling, wide-eyed mouthing "H O L Y - $ & % T !!!"

Groundstart. Yes it was. I think we may have something in common.....