[asterisk-users] Dry Copper Pair

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On Fri, 11 May 2007, Alex Balashov wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2007, John Treble said something to this effect:
>> Can you still do “homebrew” PTP T1 in the U.S. this way?  I thought this 
>> was nixed by the ILEC/CLECs years ago.
>  It's logically possible.  But if you're trying to do T1 over a single pair, 
> you'd have to break it out using HDSL/PairGain sort of line equipment, since 
> you obviously can't install field repeaters or do any
> span conditioning yourself.  From then on it's a crapshoot and really
> just depends on whether the copper is of quality, distance, specifications, 
> etc. that can support the specification.  There's no way for them to "nix"
> that, really, other than possibly keeping load coils or other constraining
> stuff on the facilities that tends to need to be removed for various
> high-speed data line / private line applications.

Most telcos have long since done wholesale load coil removal sweeps (qwest 
did it many years ago) in preparation for dsl and other highspeed data 
services.

-Dan