On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Nathan Anderson <nath...@fsr.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:58 PM, Owen DeLong <mailto:o...@delong.com> > wrote: > >> In fact, many of the hotels that have solved this intelligently have >> simply >> placed DSLAMs in the phone room and run DSL to each room with >> a relatively inexpensive (especially when you buy 500 of them at a time) >> DSL modem in each room. > > ...or more likely (at least in my own probably limited experience), a CMTS > and cable modems instead of a DSLAM and DSL modems. Probably because so many > of these hotels have an existing digital PBX system that drives all the > phones in the rooms which isn't going to take very kindly to sharing its > copper with a DSLAM, and because they already have coax run throughout the > place to drive the televisions. Easier to share the existing coax with a > CMTS than it is to stretch a bunch of new telephone wire dedicated just to > DSL; I mean, at that point, you might as well just pull some Ethernet. > I haven't encountered many CMTS-based systems in hotels where I've stayed (and I stay in quite a few every year). In most cases, the digital phone system uses 1 pair of the 2-pair wiring and the DSL modem uses the other pair. Owen
