Hi all,
I have a client that is a public library in Central Texas. We get a lot of lightning storms here. On their particular street, there must be some issue with the utilities because they have been repeatedly hit with severe electrical surges, over power lines, (Internet coax) cable lines, and phone lines.
Twice now they've had an expensive Cisco UC540 get destroyed by surges. First time it was over the power lines, so they put in a power surge protector. Then it came through the cable modem, frying both the UCS' WAN port as well as the cable modem switch port it was connected to. So we now have a surge protector on the cable as well.
Specific question: The UCS is also VOIP system, plugged into 4 analog phone lines. Any recommendations on surge protectors for these phone lines, to protect the UCS ports they're plugged into? I can find...