[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Craig Bowman]

Except Copper



Rich Wood wrote:

> ------ 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
>
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> Rich Wood Multimedia
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>
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