Too close

[Undertoad]

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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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Eventually I think everything will be colocated in a facility... I think...

Comcast cable does what they intended - a high speed low reliability cable. If AC power goes out anywhere to their switching centers or at their DSLAM, then you are stuck dead. There switching centers only have the security of a chain link fence. Few have significant backup power. Many of their amplifiers on telephone poles can result in complete cutoff if power in that neighborhood is lost. Verizon fiber will be many times faster, be a direct fiber optic connection to their CO (which always has backup power and security), and is expected to be reliable enough to replace a POTS phone.

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.

[FloridaDragon]

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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