" I, for one, live 45,000 feet from the CO and I will never get DSL at my location until some new and wonderful DSLAM type solution can be deployed into the neighborhoods..."
Ray,
My estimates were just from memory too. And I believe we almost agree exactly. Notice the key word I used was, "potential." I figure without to much capital investment, just about all twisted pair U.S. customers could be reached via g.lite DSL services (Europe I have no opinion of, or knowledge of. I wish I had more time to learn details!).
If you go around to all the old field cross-connects, knock them off their pedestals, and replace them with the NGDLCs(Next Generation Digital Cross Connects), I would guess this would make virtually all twisted pair customer available for DSL lite(and most higher level DSL services). But not being in the business, maybe this is not nearly as easy to do as it appears.
Ray, if you are at a 45,000 foot distance, just seems like to me there has to be something located in between you and the CO? Can you tell me if there is one of those old fashioned, sheet metal cabinets (containing a "cross-connect") between you and the CO? This is simply the place where the telco connects a bunch of copper from the CO to customers around this cabinet using a screw driver.
MikeM(From Florida) |
