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11-29-2011, 09:28 PM
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Another data center post/question
Had my first day down in the Data center... It's more like a Data Palace. It houses most (if not all) the data equipment for the state government. I was
I spent the day unpackaging about a zillion LIUs and got a start in mounting them in their cabinets, waiting for the fiber to get terminated into it.
Question though (may seem kinda dumb but I'm still new!): There is SO much fiber in this place, and beside the fiber I see only one or two runs of 100pr CAT III... is it possible to have a data center done completely with fiber?
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11-29-2011, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by FireInTheWire
Had my first day down in the Data center... It's more like a Data Palace. It houses most (if not all) the data equipment for the state government. I was
I spent the day unpackaging about a zillion LIUs and got a start in mounting them in their cabinets, waiting for the fiber to get terminated into it.
Question though (may seem kinda dumb but I'm still new!): There is SO much fiber in this place, and beside the fiber I see only one or two runs of 100pr CAT III... is it possible to have a data center done completely with fiber?
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Interesting question one of these guys will know. 
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11-29-2011, 10:21 PM
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NO high voltage here
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whats a lot of runs to you?
I can not say names, but I saw a job with over 100k runs of fiber
And, yes they can do a data farm in fiber
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11-29-2011, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by mikeh32
whats a lot of runs to you?
I can not say names, but I saw a job with over 100k runs of fiber
And, yes they can do a data farm in fiber
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100K runs of fiber is a lot of fiber!!! Wow! This job is probably around 500 runs of fiber- more than I've ever seen before in one place- but certainly it is a drop in the bucket compared with what's out there!
I have to ask... although I'm headed for the Inside Wireman apprenticeship in like two weeks, I find this aspect of electrical work interesting too.
Can you recommend a good introductory book (even a textbook) on the science behind the technology (like fiber optics, etc) in this field? If work is slow again and I'm caught up on my regular studies I'll read it.
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11-30-2011, 12:04 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FireInTheWire
100K runs of fiber is a lot of fiber!!! Wow! This job is probably around 500 runs of fiber- more than I've ever seen before in one place- but certainly it is a drop in the bucket compared with what's out there!
I have to ask... although I'm headed for the Inside Wireman apprenticeship in like two weeks, I find this aspect of electrical work interesting too.
Can you recommend a good introductory book (even a textbook) on the science behind the technology (like fiber optics, etc) in this field? If work is slow again and I'm caught up on my regular studies I'll read it.
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This might help. 
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11-30-2011, 01:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeh32
whats a lot of runs to you?
I can not say names, but I saw a job with over 100k runs of fiber
And, yes they can do a data farm in fiber
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Damn thats alot, did they use octopus cables for the interlinks between cabinets or were they all seperate cables?
I remember my first 6 weeks on the job were light sourcing 12 core fibre cables one core at a time in a warehouse to make sure there wasnt any damage when they were shipped from the states, I have no idea how many I did but I was going crazy looking for that little red light shining on my thumb, I can still see it there sometimes 
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11-30-2011, 03:33 AM
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contact corning. they have a lot of free ****
are you in a union?
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11-30-2011, 04:42 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeh32
contact corning. they have a lot of free ****
are you in a union?
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Nah I'm not union, what makes you ask that?
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11-30-2011, 04:53 PM
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NO high voltage here
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Originally Posted by chewy
Nah I'm not union, what makes you ask that?
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they have a **** load of books, and classes on this
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11-30-2011, 08:17 PM
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In a datacenter, I would expect to see way more orange and yellow, than blue.
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11-30-2011, 09:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeh32
contact corning. they have a lot of free ****
are you in a union?
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Ah, I'm gonna head to their website right now.
Yep, I'm in the IBEW and I asked around a little about low-volt/communications books but no one could really give me an answer on a specific book or reference- I emailed one of the instructors for Low Voltage and he never got back to me either.
I did confirm that this data farm is pretty much 100% fiber besides some runs of cat III. I will be learning lots about fiber the next couple weeks, which is great. Spent the day running fiber and prepping LIUs
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11-30-2011, 10:32 PM
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I will take pics of mine.
I am in the low voltage union apprenticeship
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