Fiber to the Bus Stop (FTTBS)The DSLAM cabinet is the one in the middle. The power pedestal is on the right. The crossconnect box took the Express Bus back to downtown so it wouldn't miss Happy Hour. Photo by Anonymous Telco Person
"I wonder how people out up with it. I have Cable and one can barely notice their boxes on the street. AT&T, wake up!"
I have cable in my neighborhood as well.
Since Verizon put Fios in, most, if not all, of my neighbors have switched. Cable quality is not up to par in this new area of town.
So yes, you can barely notice Cable in my neighborhood either.
You are also correct that AT&T needs to wake up and realize that they'll steal all the Cable customers once they arrive in a neighborhood. Yes, AT&T, "WAKE UP", why are you moving so slow, these customers are ripe for the picking!
re: "The ONT on side of the model home appears to be an old model of the Alcatel ONT. Alcatel hasn't been selling these for close to a year. How old are these pictures?"
I may be wrong but looking at those pictures it seems that those cabinets might be relatively small for SAIs (Service Access Interfaces, the first cabinet out from the CO). I know that the original Lightspeed application was described as FTTN, not FTTC (which is what BellSouth was looking into) and they were supposedly using ADSL2+ for the access technology.
I read a while back that with FTTN and the twisted pair distances that exist in much of the SBC heartland that the new AT&T was saying they were already short on bandwidth due to real life MPEG4 numbers (ie: closer to 13MB/s/channel needed for HDTV than the Lightspeed network design criteria of 6-8MB/s/channel). Has AT&T caved in and gone to FTTC for Lightspeed?
saw some trenching happening literally on the city limit of Riverside. Stopped to ask what they were putting in and was told fiber is on the way. I already knew that cause the dig alert people had been painting vegatable soup of acronyms all over the street. I did a little research with the city and learned that new AT&T telco (allegedly fiber) cabinets are coming down the street. A few months ago verizon buried their own fiber under the street. They passed my neighborhood and it appears they are not putting in any cabinets hear my neighborhood. It looks like a little fiber war is starting between two big dogs in the hood.
The ONT on side of the model home appears to be an old model of the Alcatel ONT. Alcatel hasn't been selling these for close to a year. How old are these pictures?
re: But should someone really be able to pull a lever and shut off DSL to an entire neighborhood?
Isn't that what deregulation is all about? Remember CA's electricity in 2000? Traders were shutting down power plants and transmission lines all over the place. Shouldn't the cable companies be given similar controls? That's what sparks innovation such as Almond Strowger's switch ;-)
Not too worry, FCC bureaucrats in DC can monitor all of CA's outside plants and make sure the DSL shutdowns are for maimtenance reasons only.
We're all looking for news and this purports to have some. I found a neighborhood SBC truck and the technician was testing the lines. I asked him if it was for Project Lightspeed, and he said yes, that they were testing the lines to see how bad or good they were, that I would soon see a bolt-on pedestal, etc.
IPTV and Project Lightspeed *are* interesting in themselves, and if you put up an article that talks about them, we'll all come ... and get disappointed if you serve us this kind of stuff.
But maybe it's just a trolling article - after all, most of the interesting stuff comes through the message board anyway.
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