----- Original Message ----- > From: "Leo Bicknell" <bickn...@ufp.org>
> I don't know of any residential telco services (pots, ISDN BRI, or > DSL) that has an active handoff they can test to without a truck > roll. FiOS and anyone else who's doing triple play from an ONT. :-) > I don't know of any cable services with an active handoff similar > to an ONT, although they can interrogate most cable boxes and modems > for signal quality measurements remotely to get some idea of what > is going on. On the flip side, when CableCo's provide POTS they > must include a modem with a battery, and thus incur the cost of > shipping new batteries out and old batteries back every ~5 years; > which they sometimes do by truck roll... Yeah; I have 10,000ish passings in 2.8 sq mi; I *want* to visit each node once every 5 years. :-) > So it seems to me both of those services find things work just fine > without an ONT-like test point. ONTs seem unique to FTTH deployments, > of which most today are GPON... Yes, but I hate GPON with a passion. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
