At 07:39 PM 8/31/2005 +0000, you wrote:
Although I am in Calgary, I have a hard time believing you can't get an
unpowered, unloaded circuit from one of the American incumbents. How is
Chubb
supposed to monitor your business' alarm if this product is not available?
'Dry Circuits' went out of favor in the 80s in the states, .. nowdays
critical alarm circuits are backed by RF links (as we do here via RF link,
or via cell backup).
What I can see is the RBOCs trying to upsell you to one of their managed
services. If the RBOCs didn't make dry copper available, you wouldn't have
many competitve DSL service providers state-side...not everyone is going to
wholesale the RBOCs' DSL and then off-load onto a data trunk.
Not a physical issue, really, rather it's one of tafiff's - the RBOCs got
'dry pairs' removed from the tariffs as soon as practical - most when DSL
services was introduced; in other cases, the cost ($100/month+) allowed the
marketplace to do it for them.
The solution here is a pair of Efficient Networks/Flowpoint SDSL modems, back
to back. These will do 1.5M to 2Mbit of bridged Ethernet at 5000
cable-feet.
And a pair will cost you under US$100 with shipping on Ebay. Heck, there's a
guy selling 10 of them with a Buy Now! of US$280.
Quite possible, but there are a lot of simpler (and probably less costly)
solutions.
Lee
