DS3 Coax..

Tue Apr 22 20:46:16 UTC 2003

Thus spake "Josh Richards" <jrichard at cubicle.net>
> Before fiber and ADMs were so common, in the days of buried coax
> for DS-3s (between COs and for the occassional large customer),
> coax was obviously being used for inter-building connectivity.
>
> How exactly did the topology differ?  Besides fiber, which eliminates
> the issue of ground loops and such altogether, how did the RBOCs
> actually deal with this problem when they didn't have fiber in the
> ground?

Look in the telco vault of any large building old enough to have POTS lines
coming in on real copper -- there'll be huge fuse panels, one fuse for each
line; same technology was used for T1 and T3 circuits as well, though
probably with different fuses.  I can't specify exactly what type of fuses
or panels you would buy, as I've religiously avoided inter-building copper
myself.

Fiber good, copper bad.  Move along :)

S

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