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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
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Scarely matters -- they still won't sell me a better circuit than the T1 for what I need.
Eventually I think everything will be colocated in a facility... I think... |
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Read? I only know how to write.
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 11,933
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This, of course, was possible over ten years ago when companies such as Comcast (Suburban Cable) and Verizon (Bell Atlantic) were stifling technology by not even trying to install this stuff before 1996. Verizon and Comcast are simply doing what they should have and could have done more than a decade ago. The 1996 Federal Communication Act was required to open their eyes - to return to being product oriented. Some housing developments with underground wires were good enough to see the future and to bury those optics (or install buried pipes) when homes were built In the meantime, when is the best time to have cable failure - when every one else is also out and when the communicataions lines are most needed (right after the big storm), or when we have nothing better to do but complain about the local construction crews? Clearly the worst time to have a failure is one created by overhead wires. Best time to have failure (and failures that happen far less often) is the isolated failure when a construction crew happens to hit a buried wire. (Construction crews also hit overhead wires). Of course the latter failure is fixed right then and there - immediately. Massive failures created by overhead wires can take weeks to be fixed. They are doing the right thing - as has been standard procedure for decades now. They are running cable under a street without digging up the street. Every town served by Verizon will have this installation happen from every home to the CO. Welcome to what we should have done over ten years ago. The pictures that UT has posted of those construction crews is the best news for every Cellar lurker this month. It means innovation - not cost controls - has taken hold in the communication industry. Welcome to what has been standard procedure in places like Singapore and Korea for almost ten years now. |
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... Maintaining ....
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: FireAnt Hell
Posts: 196
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Ran across this public submitted photo (credit to Gloria Gordon, ok, I am legal now) on the palmbeachpost.com web page.....maybe those power lines aren't so safe underground either!
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