How to Protect a Network Against Lightning?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @05:23AM from the that's-a-lot-of-unplugging-to-do dept.

RichiH asks: "The monsoon, started about a month early in India this year. While it is not sure if that is due to global warming or not, there are more pressing issues for the IT world at hand. Until about the end of July, there will be major thunderstorms in this area. How do you protect a network that is spread over 100 square kilometres in a land where the concept of a lightening arrestor is next to unknown? The network in question consists of about 2500 boxes of various kinds which are connected using 10BASE2 (aka BNC), 10BASE-T (aka RJ45) and 10BASE5 (aka thicknet), where only the last one may be new to some readers. The big question is: how can you protect yourself against these storms in a way that is both fast to implement and does not require laying of new lines?"

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Re:Huh... by DeadSea · 2004-05-11 06:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I can't believe that somebody modded it Funny. The moderators should be smart enough to get in on the misinformation campaign.
Re:APC makes inexpensive products for this by c0d3h4x0r · 2004-05-11 06:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A Perfect Circle makes computing products? I thought they just played shows.

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