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Originally Posted by 9083
NTL are looking at nationalising he whole system. A network engineer in Scotland 'should' be doing the same as one in London.
Some areas have spares others dont, by doing a national stock check this should be the start of everyone working to the same procedures.
I know from experience that most areas carry a fully stocked call-out kit which is passed to who-ever is on call.
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I heard a figure of £5K maximum of spares to be kept in the region for on call use!
Now from memory a nodal amplifier cost around £2K, and there were 4 different types in use in South Wales when I left the company. I think there is possibly another type in use now as well. When ou then start to think about Mux cards, common service cards and power supplies for two types of SDH equipment the £5k figure is a bit like Tescos having 3 pints of milk and 2 loafs of bread on the shelf.
As I said, the areas without spares wont necessarily benefit because they could be using a different manufactureres equipment to other areas. One of the network guys I was chatting to said they were told when questioning, that they will probably end up changing the complete nodal amplifier for a different type if there is not one available at short notice. It was pointed out that this could involve re-splicing fibres because of the different connector varieties, the manager just had a blank look about it.
