Archive for the ‘Facilities’ Category
Friday, July 20th, 2012
The San Francisco Business Times reports that a San Francisco judge has rejected a challenge to AT&T's planned cabinet deployment, which will soon deliver AT&T's U-verse broadband and television services.
I've written in the past in support of the infrastructure necessary for broadband service delivery, and I am heartened by this ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
We have been working on a large upgrade to our power capacity in our datacenter. The work today was a key step in bringing online our new Mitsubishi 500KVA backup power system. This massive unit is our third UPS, the others are a Leibert 130KVA unit and a ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
It's cool and wet tonight, the perfect conditions for the creation of steam in our cooling plant. Below are a photos of the two cooling towers putting out steam and mist.
This equipment uses outside air to cool and compress freon, which is then piped inside to large air handlers ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
One of the arcane arts of telco is cable lacing with wax string. I've been given a crash course by Juston, and I managed to demonstrate on some test cables and ties that the CEO hasn't lost his knack.
Here are a couple examples of some simple cable lacing used ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
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You can't say our team (and contractors) don't go the extra mile. Or vertical foot. This morning in the Balboa Park area of San Francisco, we installed two cabinets into SNFCCA06. This CO serves roughly from St. Francis Woods ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
We are in the process of building a third massive UPS for our datacenter in Santa Rosa, and a number of big parts have recently arrived. This project has been underway for over a year now, and is a really large undertaking.
The new custom engineered breaker panel board arrived ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
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Our green datacenter cooling system has established a great track record since deployment. Our 2008 total utility costs are projected to come in very near 2006 levels, despite huge growth of equipment in the datacenter.
So, more servers ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Our network build teams are making very good progress on the 19 central offices which we are building out in the first phase. We have had teams in San Francisco, the East Bay, Sacramento and all around Sonoma County over the last month and a half. Here are ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
As noted in the MOTD last night, we had a brief cooling failure in our Santa Rosa datacenter. This turned out fine. We had staff on site, and we have learned some things that will prevent this particular failure in the future.
For those interested in the technical reason ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
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I wonder what the people at the grocery store thought when staff member Matt Merner purchased more than twenty cans of shaving cream. I suspect they guessed he was planning some sort of late night pranks.
That would be an incorrect ...
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