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To: Tim McCormick who wrote (6285)	5/12/1999 3:36:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) of 9236

Yes you're right, also you're right about not letting it get by you. <g> However Tim what you tend to lock in on is the OLD problem with the CO. Let me run a situation by you. In this particular case the guy is located over six miles via phone lines from the CO, which of course is too far via copper to get a good DSL connection speed. At present the best speed with a 56K modem on the copper is 31.2K. Over time the salt air has degraded the copper and increased the maintenance cost so a fiber line was run along the same path and run into a vault less than 8,000 feet away. The TELCO has told the guy all they have to do is replace a DSLAM card, I think that is what it was said to be, if they replace the card where the copper meets the fiber with a new and improved one...a DSL connection is pretty much assured. The existing Litespan card is limiting the speed to 24K for those on the fiber. How do I know this? It's my phone line. This is what some of the CLEC are doing...reducing the length of copper to the CO by running fiber along some of the main runs. It's not so expensive and tends to work well in many situations. Of course the TELCOs have been fighting this. But the fact remains that reducing the lenght of copper doesn't just mean running fiber to each and every home or business. Some of the answers are here to solve these problems and don't require new technologies to work. Also we can add or move the CO. Remember a Central Office (CO) is not the building with rooms full of switching equipment like they use to be...but really closets, vaults or Christy boxes underground.

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