Gratuitous anecdote:
When we moved into 1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA (the SS Pierce
Building, 19th c) the phone closet had knob & bolt copper termination
blocks.
At some point the telco, then New England Telephone, came to replace
them with 66 blocks.
As they worked I joked that they look
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 8:57 PM Shane Ronan wrote:
> I think you'd be very surprised if you walked into the central offices of
> MANY of the large LECs.
>
> The majority of the wire frames are gone, replaced with fiber, even where
> the service is delivered as copper to the end user, it's usually
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>
> I always found the spades (?) of the 66 block to be convenient to clip a
> test set (with an angled bed of nails) onto. I've also used slip on
> jack more than a few times, especially for testing. E.g.
>
I agree that 66 blocks were always simpler for testing and troubleshooting,
but I always
Marty knows a thing or two about the history and current state of affairs
in this world :)
Pretty much all of the major LECs have set the goal of full copper
retirement. But that is a long way away.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 8:58 PM Shane Ronan wrote:
> I think you'd be very surprised if you
The problem with the Telect-style is that ever time we need to test a given
pair, we have to pull it off, it ends up breaking, we test, then re-wrap it
back on, losing an inch or so each time. For problem loops, this takes a
sizable amount of wire out of one pair in the 25-pair bundle, then crea
*nods*
We're just a CLEC in Frontier space, so they do the heavy lifting. We just need
to interface the open-ended 100-pair cables Frontier gives us with our
Occam\Calix gear. Given the "thoroughness" of the Frontier testing and
troubleshooting process, we've taken up testing the customer pai
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When I ran the largest (legacy) dialup ISP in Phoenix in the late 90's
(2000+ POTS lines over a couple sites), we ordered huge frames of 66
blocks... like someone else said better for troubleshooting because you
could pull the bridge clips to test each side and/or troubleshooting
better (or jam
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