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- From: johnl@Radix.Net (John Limpert)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Any way to fight the phone company?
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 05:25:50 GMT
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- In article <3114d526.1154571@news.insync.net>,
- bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield) wrote:
- >But even when an old analog office gets upgraded, the local practice is
- >to accomplish the interface between the SLC and the new hardware with
- >back-to-back D4 channel banks, leaving the old wire frame in the middle.
- >Absurd? Yes, totally, but damnit, that's the way it's done. The "fully
- >integrated" SLC doesn't exist in area code 713.
-
- Can anyone explain why the telephone company does this? I would have
- thought that it would have been simpler, cheaper and more reliable
- to directly terminate the T1s from the SLC into the switch. I thought
- they were trying to get rid of analog pairs and distribution frames.
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