New York Day 1
I didn't get an update out last night because the hotel stuck me in the farthest corner of the building where I couldn't get wireless. Oddly enough, my cell phone's GPRS connection wouldn't work either....
Got into New York around 9:30. Dropped our stuff off at the hotel and went to 32AofA. We immediately noticed that the power wasn't complete. There was a mixup with the power contractors doing the ESNET install first. We weren't planning on doing anything at 32AofA anyway, so no harm. Jim Shaffer from Nysernet got on it and it's being worked on.
We got everything installed at 111 8th Avenue, though we're missing some fiber jumpers that haven't arrived yet. Jay is overnighting them, so they should be here Wednesday morning. One issue is the MFP panel that Level3 mounted is flush against the bottom of the DC sentry. Doesn't harm us in terms of mounting equipment, but it won't work for running new connections into the back of it. The live DC cables hang down into the space, so I'm certain L3 won't want to work around it. We'll need to get that moved. To do that, we'll need to find a ladder so we can get up to the fiber trays. Jim Shaffer thinks there's a hardware store near 111 8th Ave. Need to figure out how to get that into the building since most places have dock restrictions here in New York.
More when we get to 32AofA....
Got into New York around 9:30. Dropped our stuff off at the hotel and went to 32AofA. We immediately noticed that the power wasn't complete. There was a mixup with the power contractors doing the ESNET install first. We weren't planning on doing anything at 32AofA anyway, so no harm. Jim Shaffer from Nysernet got on it and it's being worked on.
We got everything installed at 111 8th Avenue, though we're missing some fiber jumpers that haven't arrived yet. Jay is overnighting them, so they should be here Wednesday morning. One issue is the MFP panel that Level3 mounted is flush against the bottom of the DC sentry. Doesn't harm us in terms of mounting equipment, but it won't work for running new connections into the back of it. The live DC cables hang down into the space, so I'm certain L3 won't want to work around it. We'll need to get that moved. To do that, we'll need to find a ladder so we can get up to the fiber trays. Jim Shaffer thinks there's a hardware store near 111 8th Ave. Need to figure out how to get that into the building since most places have dock restrictions here in New York.
More when we get to 32AofA....
posted by Chris Robb at 11/15/2006 02:47:00 PM
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