We’ve reached the end of Day Two of Interop setup and I have to say that I’ve never seent he team this excited, this motivated and this productive in such a short time. Externals are up and we are now stress-testing our FOUR DS3 circuits, each of which can deliver 45Mbps of bandwidth. — We’ve got the NOC built, the PEDs in place and most of the core network up an running. I’m almost afraid to pinch myself, lest I realize that this is all a dream and we really haven’t even unloaded the trucks!

In any cases, here are a few pics from the setup… enjoy!


The Show Floor Racks --- all in a row. Barry Cummings - He's not a red head, nor is he Scottish The NOC racks are powered and ready to go.




Val Bjorski - The mother of all geeks. Enterasys spares, just in case. Geoff Horne - our lead Engineer -- No worries here!





Whaa?!? Have you ever tried rolling 600 lb network racks over heavy carpet? Polycom shows us how to hang 10


digium + asterisk + QWEST = VoIP excelence! Claude 'Surf and Turf' shows off his 'short bus seatwarmer' pose We had a major problem with static discarge -- A little fabric softner in spray bottles grounded us before we killed our gear.




Neal Allen take a call from Fluke Corporate. Our fearful leaders Brian Chee has forgotten more things about networking that most people will even know. Unfortunately he's also forgotten more things than HE will ever know!


So... how hard is it to deploy wireless phones when the wireless network isn't up? FACT: This is Dan 'The Fluke Man' --- FACT: Each of those blue boxes is worth ~$30k -- FACT: You'll soon be able to buy 10 of these on Ebay Arruba's cabbana boy goes looking for the wireless

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