[123435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Locations with no good Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Mon Mar 8 10:14:39 2010
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:16:53 -0500
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B924A65.2030100@opus1.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/6/2010 7:28 AM, Joel Snyder wrote:
> Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net> wrote:
>
> >Isn't this really an issue (political) with tariffed T1 prices rather
> >than a technical problem?
>
> >I was told that most T1s are provisioned over a DSLAM these days
> >anyways, and that the key difference between T1 and DSL was the SLA
> >(99.99% guarantee vs. "when we get it fixed").
>
> I don't know about anything other than Qwest-land in Arizona, but we
> are seeing the few T1s that are still in service provisioned as you
> described: a 2-wire DSL connection, although not out of a local DSLAM.
>
Here in Maine, they use HDSL (two pair) to supply T1. They put
repeaters down the line or work it out of a SLICK. The bridge taps and
side taps are removed from the loops (conditioned) and then there's the
SLA. I learned to always have a spare CSU/DSU on site.
--Curtis
