[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Paul Smith W4KNX]

You are right and wrong.  The old way was to run a fiber line to a terminal
and have short copper runs to homes and businesses.  Here in Sarasota now,
Verizon is running fiber right up to the house/business.  That fiber has up
to 10 phone lines, internet up to 30 Meg, and over 200 TV channels.  It has
a battery backup, good for about 24 hours.  I've had it for about 6 months
now.  Works great, except the box they installed generated a huge amount of
RF interference.  The AM band in my house is almost useless except for the
strongest signals.  I've been working with them to get this resolved.  They
didnt want to admit it's a problem, but I have their attention now.

Paul Smith
W4KNX
Sarasota, FL

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]On Behalf Of Mark Earle
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...



>than a $9 Radio Shack special. Also, I understand that new fiber
>installations require a power supply at the location. Fiber doesn't seem
>to conduct electricity well.
>
>Rich

Fiber to the home (at least, Verizon's trials in the Dallas, TX area) have
a small battery back up. Approximately 24 hours run time.

Fiber to the neighborhood - you'll see a buried "vault", or large above
ground cabinet - those run 24-96 hours to provide dial tone and data
services to the neighborhood. Usually, the phoneco runs fiber to the vault,
then uses existing copper to the homes. Great, until there is an extended
power outage (think hurricane).





mwe

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