I've only had to work with those cross-connect cabinets at one site and it was a horror show. I hated them. The density was way too tight in my book.

In my area, I only know of two of these cabinets still in service that were originally installed by CONTEL. GTE took that territory over in 1990. From what the Verizon techs here have told me since they took the area over, they just pluck the pairs off and frog them together using Scotchloks on service issues. They don't even carry the punch tools for these cabinets any more.

I can't say that I blame them.

Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX