Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
Definately.
You most emphatically do NOT want copper going across your parking lot. Besides the danger from lightning strikes and other electrostatic discharges you run the risk of ground potentials differing significantly. You could wind up with a significant amount of current flowing across the coax just to balance building grounds. (This is why telcos insist on a single ground point and have that point connected to an array of ground rods driven deep in the ground.)
Agreed. Fiber is Your Friend [tm]. Ground loops and potential differences will not only have you ripping your hair out, but you stand to lose DS-3 ports. Now some guy told me that such costs a bit more than the RS-232 & Ethernet ports I regularly see die, but that's likely just a rumor. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433