[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Mike McCarthy]

Agreed...

The telco's are increasing use of remote terminals (CLEC???) to convert circuits fed by fiber to copper at greater distanced from the CO.  We have one of those powering our house.  It frees up copper closer to the CO where running fiber can be really costly to operate.

So the result is when power feeding those goes down for more than 24 hours, EVERYTHING fed from them...including copper...fails as well.  

This is but one issue to consider when looking for new studio and transmitter locations if you are not a major building in a centrally located area. It's not information the telco will readily provide  unless they are pressed.  It's a known weak link in the system.

MM


The other side of that is that the copper coming into our building
> connects to an "RT" (telco lingo) hut and doesn't go to the CO directly.
> During Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Dennis, our phones connected to
> copper went dead after the batteries in the RT discharged....the
> circuits I had on fiber remained up.
> 
> Charlie Wooten
> Clear Channel Radio
> Panama City, FL
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Craig Bowman
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:45 AM
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> Subject: Re: [BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...
> 
> During the most recent outage in the northeastern US, in the Metro
> Detroit area, after three days without power the copper lines were
> working.  After a few hours all the fiber was dead.  An interesting
> note, one of the emergency management headquarters was serviced by
> fiber.  Near the onset of one of the largest and longest blackouts in
> the area's history they were forced to move to another building which
> was serviced by fiber.  At least with copper back to the CO you only
> have to worry about the CO's backup power.
> 
> Craig Bowman
> 
> 
> Rich Wood wrote:
> 
> > ------ At 10:42 AM 6/5/2006, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------
> >
> >> This is one reason I am so reluctant to "let go" of the twisted pairs
> 
> >> coming from the CO to my home or to the station. They provide the 
> >> power to make the phones work, even if the AC Mains are down for more
> 
> >> than a week. The expression, "It just works!" really does apply to 
> >> the good ol' POTS we so often take for granted.
> >
> >
> > Tain't necessarily so. One of the New York outages, the story goes, 
> > was that the backup batteries weren't charged properly. Maybe 
> > maintenance hadn't reconnected them. There was a power failure 
> > downtown. Phones went out. It might be urban legend but it, allegedly,
> 
> > happened when all the telco hotshots were in a meeting. No one was 
> > minding the store.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Rich Wood
> > Rich Wood Multimedia
> > Phone: 413-454-3258
> >
> >
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