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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: lml who wrote (2538)12/11/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: WTC  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
<Is it possible to situate a DSLAM at the DLC box rather than the CO? Is it gonna take the extension of a fiber-optic cable to the DLC to DSL deliverable over the longest loop distances?>

Yes, that is exactly the preferred engineering response to your situation. In general, a very large percentage of DLC at 40+ kf from the serving CO is already fiber fed. I obviously can't speak to your particular situation, but if it is still a copper AMI repeatered line, there are economic incentives (cheaper growth, lower maintenance expenses, etc.) for eventually transitioning from copper to a fiber feed, probably when the DLC is upgraded.

There is a lot of prime demographic in areas like you describe: a good density of prime candidates for high value, high bandwidth services that are unservable by the installed transport technology. The good news is probably that your situation is fairly common, so it is getting serious attention from vendors and the ILECs. The bad news, from a response standpoint, is that you are probably not considered the low-hanging fruit that will be build to first. But you can be confident that situations like yours will not be ignored by the ILECs. How close you are to becoming lowish hanging fruit might be based on whether you are fiber vs. copper fed DLC today. You are right, that is a big obstacle to overcome, if there are easier needs to meet out there that make the quota for the engineers.
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