On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Richard McClary <[email protected]> wrote: > A bit over a year ago, we had a new telephone service provider. Their system > comes > in on fiber. At the building DMARC, one DS-3 is split into three DS-1 lines > and > comes into our telephony gateway. > > We have had that CAT 6 run between the gateway and the DMARC, and it is just > a wee bit > long – 348 ft (and the standard says 308 ft maximum).
I would suggest contacting the LEC[1] and seeing if they'll extend the demarc to your phone room. That means they move their CPE[2] out of the demarc and into your phone room. That would likely mean running additional fiber from the demarc to the phone room, which won't be cheap, but will be the most reliable solution. Alternatively, see if they can change the line card/configuration in the existing CPE at the demarc over to "outside plant" type[3], and then put NIUs[4] in your phone room as an extended demarc. That would let you run the signal over your existing copper. Outside plant runs go tens of thousands of feet. Goal here is to bring the telco signal as close to your equipment as possible, eliminating the question of customer-responsibility repeaters/etc., entirely. -- Ben [1] Local Exchange Carrier, i.e., the company that's providing physical lines to your facility. You may have to go through your provider to contact them. [2] Customer Premises Equipment. Boxes with lights on them provided by the carrier. [3] I don't know the technical terminology for the signal on the wire, but it's different from what an NIU[4] typically presents to us customers. [4] Network Interface Units. AKA "smartjacks".
