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| Thread ID: 37689 | 2003-09-15 08:06:00 | What does a telephone exchange look like? | James Busby (341) | Press F1 |
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| 175452 | 2003-09-15 11:27:00 | they obviously have a good boot then ? :D start up should be quick huh? beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 175453 | 2003-09-15 12:30:00 | The one I would like to know about are the ones on a main road which obviously have some sort of cabling under the road. I got told they were permanent road counters and yet I ended up seeing a normal road counter (rubber strip)beside one so have my doubts. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 175454 | 2003-09-15 20:30:00 | >The one I would like to know about are the ones on a main road which >obviously have some sort of cabling under the road . Is it blue? |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 175455 | 2003-09-15 20:51:00 | Big green metal boxes are most likely to be power connections. Does it have a warning sticker thingy on it saying "Danger, Live Wires"? I know the big green metal boxes around where I live do, and they're the power ones. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 175456 | 2003-09-15 21:24:00 | Saturn use green pillars and boxes in Lower Hutt, anyway. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 175457 | 2003-09-15 23:56:00 | > Saturn use green pillars and boxes in Lower Hutt, > anyway. In east Auckland it is the same (Telecom) |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 175458 | 2003-09-16 01:10:00 | No green and sit about a metre up on a post. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 175459 | 2003-09-16 02:31:00 | >No green and sit about a metre up on a post. Dear me,the have learned to climb,what next?;) |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 175460 | 2003-09-16 02:42:00 | Permanent traffic counters would need to be checked from time to time ... so a conventional one (with low-technology airhose sensor) would be put in the same place for a while. Believe it or not, high technology equipment sometimes doesn't work. :O Some telephone exchanges have "Telephone Exchange" cast in the concrete over the front door. The Post & Telegraph Dept wasn't shy about it. :D More modern ones tend to have high mesh fences, and very few windows (which are small and high up the wall). But they are usually marked on the Lands & Survey street maps. I have an idea that these days the buildiongs have a lot of free space. The cable termination frames would be the biggest equipment there now, unlike the days when there were rack after rack of rotary selectors and relays. The power supplies would be much smaller too. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 175461 | 2003-09-16 10:58:00 | the green boxes are probably our "cabinets".These are junction boxes with about 400 pairs going in to them and 4-800 pairs going out to the houses around.They can also be white,and house PCM gear.The actual exchanges are usually reasonably central to each town,so as to get the most people for the shortest runs of cable.When Telecom took over they removed the Exchange name plates,presumably for security reasons,so there is nothing to distinguish them nowadays.Also,they ARE mostly empty,because everything has got so much smaller these days | Peter Coleman (597) | ||
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