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Holy Copper And Rubber, That's A Lot Of Cable! [PIC]

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  • DaveCG, on 03/24/2009, -4/+199Hate to be the guy that has to troubleshoot that *****...
  • MCA2142, on 03/24/2009, -10/+142Front page appearance no. 9000
  • merreborn, on 03/24/2009, -1/+126You don't troubleshoot that. Connection breaks? Run another wire.
  • cs188, on 03/24/2009, -3/+107It's a series of TUBES! Tangled up TUBES!
  • yacks, on 03/24/2009, -0/+100My bet is that is what they have been doing for a long time.. at one point it was only 2 cables.
  • ismschisms, on 03/24/2009, -0/+98Those are telephone wires. That's what the inside of a phone company's relay station looks like.
  • directedition, on 03/24/2009, -0/+79I would be so tempted to just dive my hand in there with a tiny pair of scissors and drive someone completely insane
  • andyb747, on 03/24/2009, -2/+59Cut the blue wire.......no the other blue wire.....no .no the.....the other....no the other .....on the left..... over there...not that blue one....
  • peteyb1313, on 03/24/2009, -2/+38title is missing "Batman"
  • RudeTurnip, on 03/24/2009, -6/+41Wow, if I had a crack habit, I know where I'd get my financing!
  • inactive, on 03/24/2009, -2/+32What?! 9000?!
  • theballdredge, on 03/24/2009, -3/+31its over 9000
  • NinjaGod, on 03/24/2009, -6/+31That's when you know it's time to go wireless.

    Then again, it would be a waste to throw all those cables out.
  • nate007, on 03/24/2009, -2/+24all that was replaced by fiber optic the size of your pinky finger
  • themdjunkie, on 03/24/2009, -0/+20They are wire pairs for a telephone system, not fiber optic cable
  • mattyboy555, on 03/24/2009, -0/+20As an electrician, each cable is meter checked, then tagged on both ends,(panel and device) before a new cable is pulled after.

    I know they are not power cables, but fibre optic cables have the same procedure
  • balzonya, on 03/24/2009, -2/+20OMFG ITS BEEN TWO WEEKS
  • idc5, on 03/24/2009, -4/+21imagine sawing through that *****.
  • Blitzenn, on 03/24/2009, -0/+17Its called a 'demark', short for demarkation point. Every telco has a wire closet that looks like this. Its the place where ALL of the telephone wires come together at one point for the service area. Generally in a city, they are even bigger than this, but in many cases they simply create a seperate demark if it gets too big.

    Its the basement of a telco's wire closet or telco outbuilding.
  • thunderdonkey, on 03/24/2009, -0/+17I'm glad to know I'm not the only sadist who thought exactly the same thing.

    "Here man, you're welcome to use my tracing tools... Are those cables shielded?"
  • felidaeus, on 03/24/2009, -2/+18Holy Copper And Rubber Batman! That's a Lot of Cable!

    Fixed.
  • j0hnc0ry, on 03/24/2009, -1/+17Because wireless is great at patching circuits?
  • Jhiaxuz, on 03/24/2009, -1/+15This just in! The technology to turn off caps lock is caps lock.
  • brianez21, on 03/24/2009, -1/+15@mozert: make your browser window wider...
  • assbeard, on 03/24/2009, -1/+14that doesn't look like shielded cabling at all
  • inactive, on 03/24/2009, -5/+18Ah, the naive internet denizen, how cute.

    Do you have any idea how much copper is worth on the recycling market? Hint: enough to buy drugs with.
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 03/24/2009, -0/+13Why is it a fire hazard? It's just network cable, it's not like regular power lines.
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 03/24/2009, -0/+13I made the same comment from before... If the story can be recycled, so can my comments! :-)
  • kammy4u, on 03/24/2009, -1/+14Yeah, I always mount my air ducts on cable trays...
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 03/24/2009, -4/+16You should see the size of the RJ45 plug on the end of that!
  • beahmad, on 03/25/2009, -1/+12ah, the condescending internet guy, how expected.
  • DaviDTC, on 03/24/2009, -0/+11Sell the copper.
  • DeathMarcher, on 03/24/2009, -0/+11I think he just wanted to say plenum.
  • forcedfx, on 03/24/2009, -0/+10Phone lines maybe? Looks like twisted pair.
  • Stormwern, on 03/24/2009, -1/+11Cut the right cable, or the bomb will go off.
  • JDMcompliant, on 03/24/2009, -1/+11i have to be honest...after looking at the picture i still don't know where you'd get your financing.
  • peteyb1313, on 03/24/2009, -2/+12actually i think he is getting at the fact that running electricity through a wire creates a magnetic field, which could induce current in the other cables causing "interference"
  • oaktree, on 03/24/2009, -1/+11How did you go along spelling things so well and then throw out the "thoid tonig'?
  • pen25, on 03/24/2009, -1/+10um sorry but those are all either ds0 or t1 lines. yes you could mux them up to a fiber but you still have to get the copper to connect to the physical lines. wish i had the pictures of chicago main. they literally had to open the wall and remove the mdf's with a crane. and BTW this is nothing compared to some of the other co's i have been in.
  • Joe_rigby, on 03/24/2009, -0/+9plenum

    That's refreshing
  • sailadayaway, on 03/24/2009, -0/+9They're wire pairs, the same you have coming into your telephone, so they're about 22-26 gauge. So lots of small single strand wires.
  • mattyboy555, on 03/24/2009, -0/+9Thanks for explaining, I didn't know that, I deal with power systems, not communication.
  • MadMonk67, on 03/24/2009, -0/+9You can "tone out" the cable by putting a tone generator on one end and search for the signal with a tone probe on the other. Still...that would not be fun trying to track it down.
  • edalquist, on 03/24/2009, -0/+9Thats why it is all twisted pair. Meaning that if the interference is induced on one wire of the pair it is very likely induced on the other. So with the wonders of electricity if both wires have their baseline voltage upped by X it doesn't matter. (X+A) - (X+B) == A - B
  • asimplevictory, on 03/24/2009, -0/+7Anyone doubting the legitimacy of this picture has never been in an old, rural LEC Central Office. Or old large government establishment..... It actually looks like that.
  • inactive, on 03/24/2009, -0/+9See the splice to the secret NSA room?
  • Teh1337Pirate, on 03/24/2009, -2/+10That Gentlemen, is what we call a cluster *****.
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 03/24/2009, -0/+8I guess I need a Digg restraining order. No comments allowed within 10 of mine.
  • TequilaCollins, on 03/24/2009, -0/+8I call *****. I've seen it in the movies. It's always the red wire. :-)
  • Cerialthriller, on 03/24/2009, -2/+10they're called RJOVER9000 ends for that size.
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