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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Any way to fight the phone company?
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 03:32:18 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <311965fe.12576704@news.insync.net>
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- dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
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- >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.
-
- C'mon on down....and well take a walking tour through National-1, Clay,
- Capitol, Alief, Buffalo, etc., etc central offices. If there's a SLC-96
- involved, the COT side breaks down to analog -before- it hits the
- machine. Back-to-back channel banks across the wire frame into a digital
- machine is commonplace here, at least where the digital machines exist,
- (and not many yet do) in office after office, after office.
-
- In *brand-new* areas we're only starting to see 5ERS (remote shelf)
- stuff, but SWB promises that will be the wave of the future. I just
- hope I live long enough to see it. Personally, I'm anxiously awaiting
- the day the plug finally gets yanked on the old 1A feeding my residence.
-
- At my office we have a Rockwell dual 3X50 dark fiber mux (belonging to
- SWB) which from the smart jack feeds into a Motorola DACS (ours) ahead
- of our full digital (Mitel) switching network. Input into our machine is
- full digital/integrated but on SWB's side only the 8 spans of DID trunks
- are fully integrated. The TKNA & DONA trunks hit channel banks at the
- SWB end and terminate onto the LEN as analog. MFS has another single
- 3X50 which along with other service approximates our SPRINT POP, which
- is full digital all the way.
-
- But our office is one of the few exceptions here in NPA 713. SWB
- tariffs digital service at a considerably higher rate than they do
- analog service. It's kind of like them still charging extra for DTMF.
- They charge even more if we ask for MF/inband. Go figure.
-
- I'm sure it grindles them that I tie up 3 DS0s and 4 BRITE cards for
- them to backhaul my residential ISDN into the nearest 5E. Someday we'll
- move into the 20th century, but likely not before the start of the 21st.
-
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