[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:07 AM 6/5/2006, Mark Earle wrote: -------

>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).

Or, think of a 29 hour East Coast blackout. Virtually every phone 
system went belly up.

Rich

Rich Wood
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