Re: Where can I learn about telephone cabling?

Hello,

Lucas Tam wrote:
> Bob Langford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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> > It would really cool to 
> > find the kind of book a real phone company tech would be trained
> > from.  Does anyone know of such things?  Or are they all 
> > internal manuals, that aren't available to the public?
> > How do people learn this stuff?
>
>
> I think college telecommunication courses tech you this type of stuff.
>
> Or, you can try getting a job at a telecommunications company like Nortel, 
> Avaya, etc.

What?  There's still jobs at telecommunications companies?  <said with 
cracked voice, spittle on side of mouth, throbbing vein at temple, etc.> 
Where?  Where?

Anyway, I've found the best info out there to be at various web sites 
and with manuals for equipment.  There are sites out there explaining 
cabling standards, pinouts, etc.  I've always liked the Adtran manuals 
for CSU/DSU's and the cisco manuals, both the hard copy and the CD-ROMs.
Often the appendices of manuals have good, brief, condensed info.

I worked for a telco, actually for a wholly-owned subsidiary, and tried 
to get the info you are talking about.  For the life of me I could not; 
it was really incredible.  But then, those huge companies can be like 
that.  I wound up gathering the best info which I had from web sites. 
Also, from seeing how the guys on the job did things, like wiring CO's, 
stuff like that.

The problem with gathering up info from anything out there is that you 
can't know if it is correct.  But many of the sources are well-known and 
 heavily used.  I can post some of the URLs if you like or send what I 
have -- a collection of bookmarks -- to you if you like.

Gotta get my beauty sleep so I can be bright and chipper for stocking 
grocery shelves tomorrow.  If I'm lucky I might talk my way into setting 
 up their wireless access points for the hand-held inventory PDA's.  Ya 
gotta keep in practice somehow!

- Greg
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