Way back when I had a tour of the Digex data center and NOC. We were not that large but I was in Baltimore for a ISP Conference and had extra time so I setup a meeting. It was a nice facility. After we were done my sales guy asked me to hang on a second while he checked something. As it turns out the box was free at Camden Yards and the Orioles were playing. So we grabbed anyone still at the office and free and headed on over to the game. We talked nerd stuff the whole time and paid little attention to the game. As it turns out Ripken had just set the record for the most consecutive games the games before. Needless to say we went with Digex, no because of the box sets etc... but because they were true heels and knew what they were doing. Plus the boss liked the price. On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 8:14 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 9/1/20 4:39 PM, Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Port master 2/e with 30 sportster modems hanging off it. That is how Erol’s
internet started. They used the spinner racks from their video store to
hold them all. I knew someone that worked there a little later, but the
story was passed down.
We did exactly that at Digex, we pushed those PM-2Es hard. In the
beginning we held the modems on rack-mounted shelves, but we had a lot
of problems with overheating, We initially spaced them out with Legos
(yes, Legos!), but we quickly replaced them with custom-made metal trays
with spacer pins as soon as we could afford to do so.
(When courting $100K+/mo contracts with datacenter tours, one must
establish credibility and build trust...and one doesn't do that with Legos.)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA