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From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England))
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Subject: Re: Request For Opinions:  Optical Fiber Physical Topologies
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Date: 12 Apr 89 22:13:24 GMT
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In article <1507@Portia.Stanford.EDU> 
morgan@Jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan) writes:
>
>(Stanford, BTW, is a living museum of cable and signalling methods,
>and probably not a model for anyone's planning, at least for baseband
>applications.) 
>
	I have this theory of installed wire as a complex system.
Once your installed base of wire exceeds a certain critical threshold
(no one ever pulls anything out of his wire "museum"), the cabling
takes on new and complex behaviours.  The wire becomes alive, capable
even of eating technicians who foolishly venture in the zone above the
ceiling tiles.
	We lost two techs.  We left the ladders where they were and
the ceiling tile off, hoping the wire beast would at least spit out
the bones, but it never did.