> BTW: Is there a mailing list for ISP related telco hardware? Or
> telco hardware as related to ISP's?Not that I'm aware of. That would really be very vendor specific. News =
groups are good for this but like you said it's not data only, =
voice/video equipment gets mixed in.
Well, I think one is coming together with my suggestion. I'll be on
it (and we'll announce it here on nanog) so people can drill me
for hardware info.
> Yeah, so you're large enough to hire a contractor to do all your telco.
> What about us small-fry who can't afford contractors.See if @home is hiring
Actually, I think @Home is large enough to be using contractors. I sent
a resume their way, but no bites 
DL was real good in getting us a CSU firmware fix for the CSUs. There =
was a problem where accessing the console port of the DL chassis through =
a terminal server, the three characters of the arrow key would be =
received with too much spacing/time between them ... packetman helped =
picking this up ...
Yeah, I had the same assumption when I ran into the problem for the
first time (vt100 escape code timing not tight enough), so it was
nice to hear about the U-D-L-R keys working.
> Anyway, I made my point. Just curious.
nay, too vendor specific ... newsgroups ...
I always thought the newsgroups were not vendor-specific enough...
  rob.