I watched the installation in my neighborhood. They wrapped the fiber line around the existing POTS lines. It was sort of cool there was a spinner that wrapped the fiber around the line as it was pulled down the line by a guy in a cherry picker bucket at line height from a moving truck. They bury the main lines and hook in to them where convenient.
The black boxes on the line are distribution points where they can hook up four lines to houses. When they hooked my house up it was just one guy and a ladder who hooked up a line which was roughly twice as long as needed so he could pull the line up to roof height on the other end. They stored the extra line coiled in the box on the outside of the house since it has a special connector on each end that they simply plug into the box on the outside wall.. It took them about six months to offer FIOS from when I saw the first signs of installation. On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Scott McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While walking my dogs the other evening I noticed that many of the utility > poles in my subdivision have looped or coiled black cables taped onto them. > Some of the coils have an end that goes up to the level where the phone lines > are installed. I took a look at one loop of cable and it had a red plastic > "Verizon" marker. The cable sheath has "Corning Optical" and some other > markings. Some of the cables run into rectangular boxes that are about 2ft > long. > > The next day I looked around some more and it appears that the newer cable > has been installed along quite a lot of the runs in the few blocks around my > house. My guess is that FIOS is being installed in my subdivision, but I am > curious about two things: > > 1) With all the recent list discussion of the removal of the POTS copper > lines during a FIOS installation, what is the make-up of the lines that run > along the poles after the work that I am seeing performed? > > 2) Does the old copper remain on the poles to provide service to homes along > the way that aren't switched to FIOS? > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
