On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 19:25 -0400, James Dumais wrote: > > What about the long-loop adapters like > > http://www.proctorinc.com/46222.htm, it's good for 30,000 feet (24awg) > > I'm conservatively looking at (e.g. rounding up) at 50,000 feet. > > > > Could one of those work, if I found one that could handle a 50 kilofoot > > loop? > > -- > > John Van Ostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Net Direct Inc. > > > > > sorry for the delay in my responce, > > i have no idea if that would work or not, to be honest... how are you > getting this "dry loop" btw? are you running the cable? >
I asked Bell Canada for a solution and they recommended using a dry copper loop and two MCK modems to drive the line. We were told that for OPX, this is Bell's solution. I checked out the MCK and they are just specialized modems that digitize voice and transmit to an MCK on the other end. The company that Bell uses has not returned the Bell rep's call (it's been a week) so I took a look for hardware myself. I'm not convinced that the Bell rep is really considering all my options so I'm now looking for alternatives. I do have a confession. I did say that the remote location doesn't have good bandwidth. What I meant was that I tried to get DSL there, using the same provider as the central site, and I couldn't. They do have Rogers cable and I'm now considering trying a VPN and SIP to connect. My resistance is that I've done this at home (and will continue to) but I'm worried that the drop in quality will not be acceptable to the customer. What are people's experience in this? Do I need a VPN, or will Asterisk support encrypted connections?
