[Boatanchors] WAS Goodies NOW Bell

[Richard Knoppow]

On 4/12/2015 5:54 PM, jbrannig at verizon.net wrote:
>   The central office battery bank is great, but without wires, and poles,  to carry the voltage .....pretty useless...
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> Local Telco's have been abandoning POTS lines for several years.  Fiber requires much less maintenance.
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> After the Sandy flooding, all of the copper lines in lower Manhattan were replaced with fiber.
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> Jim
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      About thirty years ago I went on a tour of the AT&T broadcast 
operating center in down town Los Angeles.  This was also the 
terminating point for long lines coming into the city.  We were told 
that almost all of the copper in the long lines outside plant had been 
replaced with optical fiber (at that time multiple mode). The salvage 
value of the copper was greater than the cost of the replacement fiber 
plant.  Modern single mode fiber has much greater channel capacity so 
should be even cheaper.

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL