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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (6104)	10/4/2002 8:12:13 AM
From: Stuart D. Brorson	Read Replies (2) of 46821

Hi Frank & Board, Thanks for your replies to my wireless local loop question. You've given me a lot to chew on; I can't hope to reply intelligently to all the points you've raised. However, I found a couple of points particularly attractive. First off, let me refine my original idea. The apartment building in question is fairly old, and has Verizon land line service already running into the basement. The apartments are already wired for at most two lines. The problem occurs when tenants want more lines into their units than already exist. My thought was to find a centrex system which accepts e.g. T1 from the CO, and distributes the voice signals via wireless link (i.e. instead of wire) from the basement to the individual apartments. Hopefully, the voice signals would be encrypted to prevent neighbors from spying on each other. An added bonus would occur if one could run voice and data to the apartments over the wireless link. Specific questions/points: * We already have a MPOE -- the phone company runs twisted pair from the CO into the basement. The job here is to get from the basement upstairs to the individual units. Can one convert a twisted pair between the CO & the building to T1? Or does this require a new run of cable? (I am not a telecom expert.) * There is some disucssion amongst the shareholders about taking control of the communications infrastructure within the builidng (it's a co-op). In this case, your URL -- xchangemag.com -- about installing a cross-connect in the basement to select between competitive service providers is very interesting. Are you aware of any buildings which have done this? * You mentioned several situations where WLL has been employed in NYC (e.g. 9/11 disaster recovery). Do you know the mfr of the systems used? * We have cable modem service to the building. The cable company has installed cable ducts in all the hallways. Do the laws you quote apply to cable infrastructure? Can we use these ducts to install our own twisted pair if we choose? * As for providing wireless VoIP phones: it's a great idea. I need to think a little bit about how to scale it to provide comm services to an entire building. Any ideas? Thanks for your ever interesting insights, Stuart

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