"But that would not be NEBS Complient" -PHB I have thought of air horns in my colo cage when a tech of mine messes up. ------Original Message------ From: Nathan Ward To: nanog list Subject: Re: Fiber cut in SF area Sent: Apr 13, 2009 4:55 PM On 14/04/2009, at 11:35 AM, David Barak wrote:

In addition, as has been noted, this system wouldn't PREVENT a failure, it would just give you some warning that a failure may be coming, probably by a matter of minutes.

Some statistics about the effectiveness of car alarms and unmonitored house alarms would probably be useful here. Whack a $5 12v horn on it, and my bet is that it'd become a deterrent pretty quickly. -- Nathan Ward