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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Any way to fight the phone company?
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 11:51:38 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- John Limpert (johnl@Radix.Net) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- It does happen at times but not as often as Bill thinks, I suspect. When
- we installed the first digital long distance switch in California (1977,
- PacBell installed an AT&T 4ESS), the T1 (actually D4) systems were hooked
- in this way. When I was involved in the installation of the 4ESS in West
- Palm Beach, FL in 1980 it was not done this way. If SW Bell in Texas is
- still doing this on a regular basis I would be highly surprised. The
- digital carrier is brought in to a DSX (a digital cross-connect frame)
- and then directly into the switch. It does go on copper but that is the
- way most digital carrier traveled in local areas (4-wire, balanced or
- impedence-matched). The newest form is to bring it into a DACS (a
- computerized digital cross-connect system) and then into the switch. But
- even the connection between the DACS and the switch is copper.
-
- Fiber-optic is used mainly on high-capacity facility, such as
- Lightguide(tm) systems which are 1.7Gbps and handle a *huge* amount of
- inter-office trunking and on 45Mbps system (T3 carrying 28 T-1 systems).
-
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