Archive for the ‘Access’ Category
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
One of the arcane arts of telco is cable lacing with wax string. I've been given a crash course by Juston, and I managed to demonstrate on some test cables and ties that the CEO hasn't lost his knack.
Here are a couple examples of some simple cable lacing used ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
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We started construction in Forestville today. It's the last of our initial nineteen offices slated for build-out during this initial phase. All of the other locations are nearly done, with just a few loose ends to be tied up ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
A recent survey confirms what ILEC investor calls and SEC filings have shown for some time. Consumers are moving away from land lines in favor of mobile phone products.
Eighteen percent of homes have no land lines, and another thirteen percent have land lines but rarely if ever use them. ...
Posted in Access, Voice | 19 Comments »
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
[caption id="attachment_291" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Last cabinets, for Forestville and one final San Francisco office"][/caption]I was wandering around the warehouse this evening trying to find a plastic chair mat, and I noticed that it feels pretty empty in there.
We have had twenty huge cabinets on top of the shelves for quite ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
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You can't say our team (and contractors) don't go the extra mile. Or vertical foot. This morning in the Balboa Park area of San Francisco, we installed two cabinets into SNFCCA06. This CO serves roughly from St. Francis Woods ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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I am very proud of our central office installation teams. These folks have been working long hours and are getting great work done. We're underway in virtually every central office, with many of them pretty far along toward completion.
The network is now ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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As I've written in the past, a large number of rural customers do not have access to wired Internet access products.
Satellite access provides a great alternative, but it's traditionally been pretty expensive for the equipment and installation. ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Our network build teams are making very good progress on the 19 central offices which we are building out in the first phase. We have had teams in San Francisco, the East Bay, Sacramento and all around Sonoma County over the last month and a half. Here are ...
Posted in Access, Facilities | 4 Comments »
Friday, October 31st, 2008
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For the past eight years, I have seen a movement away from critical open access, and toward a monopolized Internet. It's time for change.
In 1996, during the end of Clinton's first term, congress passed the 1996 Telecom Act, opening voice and ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Today we delivered service for our first Fusion Broadband customer in Santa Rosa.
The first circuit was delivered for Bob Amen, a long time Sonic.net customer. Bob is also the director of systems and network admin ...
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