On 20-Dec-2006, at 18:27, Jonathan Brewer wrote:
Some of us are hoping that LLU will result in ISPs or CLECs provisioning their own backhaul into exchanges.
In my experience (in a market where such things are already possible, and have been for some time) most recurring outages are due to shitty copper, and not DSLAM ports.
How often is it that a network outage is a result of a last-mile copper cut?
Cut, or suffering from cross-talk, or exposed terminals somewhere that become horribly unbalanced when it rains, or a mis-patch in a roadside cabinet, or just rotten old copper somewhere that needs to be replaced. Someone once showed up at my house in Burlington, Ontario and helpfully aerated my lawn for me, for free. That's when I found out that the last ten feet of my Bell Canada last mile was only buried about an inch beneath the grass. Joe