How many people have to change their clocks tonight?

[goeduck]

BAaaaa! :laughing:

We were running gigabit over existing copper ever since it became available at my last employer.

People don't like to be exposed when they do something irresponsible with money. That's the bottom line. It makes them look bad.

Copper has distance limitations much more so than fiber. We are talking about an airport, right? Long runs.

 

[YLee Kioti]

the sun dial is on DST auto set....so we just step outside and squint more early in the morning...wats that big white circle?

 

[MossRoad]

Copper has distance limitations much more so than fiber. We are talking about an airport, right? Long runs.

He was talking about a networked airport..... it already had a network and PBX phone systems. T1 lines over copper pairs can go what? 6000' and carry something like 24 simultaneous phone calls. Throw in repeaters and long distances are very easy. It's been too long since I had to remember the actual numbers.

 

[bcp]

Leave the clocks alone. Change starting/opening and quitting/closing times for seasonal changes.

Bruce

 

[goeduck]

He was talking about a networked airport..... it already had a network and PBX phone systems. T1 lines over copper pairs can go what? 6000' and carry something like 24 simultaneous phone calls. Throw in repeaters and long distances are very easy. It's been too long since I had to remember the actual numbers.

6000’ as the underground duct banks run is not far on an airport. MUCH better to use fiber. Many of those runs probably are on the perimeter making the total length much longer. At least that has been my experience.

 

[MossRoad]

6000’ as the underground duct banks run is not far on an airport. MUCH better to use fiber. Many of those runs probably are on the perimeter making the total length much longer. At least that has been my experience.

Well, my experience is that it's less than half a mile across our airport that has 8000' and 7000' runways. There's conduits and utility tunnels under the runways. Almost none of the runs go around the perimiter, and certainly not the networking.

I worked at our airport for 6 years, and I was in I.T. for 25 years, so I'm not unfamiliar with either of the two industries.

While I agree that fiber is the way to go today, just 10 years ago, it was still not.

 

[goeduck]

Well, my experience is that it's less than half a mile across our airport that has 8000' and 7000' runways. There's conduits and utility tunnels under the runways. Almost none of the runs go around the perimiter, and certainly not the networking.

I worked at our airport for 6 years, and I was in I.T. for 25 years, so I'm not unfamiliar with either of the two industries.

While I agree that fiber is the way to go today, just 10 years ago, it was still not.

Larger airports need to encompass satellites, hardstands, lots of remote equipment, not just cross from one side to the other. Agree that fiber is the only way to go these days and grant money likely requires fiber. I walked a medium sized one (rode actually) last Friday that had fiber around the perimeter installed on a grant to set up an infrastructure for perimeter protection.

 

[dragoneggs]

Leave the clocks alone. Change starting/opening and quitting/closing times for seasonal changes.

Bruce

Oh that will save a lot of money. Administrative nightmare. ullinghair:

 

[MossRoad]

Oh that will save a lot of money. Administrative nightmare. ullinghair:

That's one of the problems we had living so close to three different observations of time.... you never knew when someone was going to be open or closed.

What I hated the most, though, was we'd go to a beach at Lake Michigan to watch the sunset. Beach closed at 9 their time. Sunset was 8:47 their time. They'd kick you out of the park. Grrrr...... Now we are all on the same time, and they stay open past sunset. So all is well in our world again. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]