Copper Termination Blocks

Martin Hannigan hannigan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 21:05:29 UTC 2022


On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 8:57 PM Shane Ronan <shane at ronan-online.com> 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 served
> from something fiber fed much closer to the end user.
>


I'm in LEC CO's a lot. I'm not seeing this.



> I can tell you that one MAJOR LEC has a major push going on to retire ALL
> copper.
>

I'm sure they are. TDM has been on the target list for years and LEC's
still pay cross connect fees on TDM services. They're getting out of the
network, but not quickly and not if they are printing money.

Warm regards,

-M<
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