[61553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dry pair
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne)
Fri Aug 29 21:51:10 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:52:29 -0400
From: Wayne <nanog@wgustavus.com>
To: "Austad, Jay" <JAustad@temgweb.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <288FAF5565A1A74EA5E35C39E7EE1D420A1BDB05@mail.temgweb.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Austad, Jay wrote:
> Does anyone know to go about getting Qwest or a CLEC to patch through a dry
> pair between two buildings connected to the same CO?
>
> When I called to order one, no one knew what I was talking about.
>
> -jay
>
Most of the other responses have covered the various terms to try when
ordering this type of ckt. All I can say is good luck. I did this back
in 1994 with some HDSL modems from Pairgain and it worked like a charm.
(btw, I got the 2 ckts I needed for the connection by ordering 2
"alarm ckts" and then rewiring the separate jacks into a single jack for
the modem)
However, this was before the days of mass DSL deployment and CLECs. The
local loop is managed a little tighter these days and ILECs are a lot
less willing to sell this type of service. As someone else said, even
if you can get a sales rep to sell it to you, getting it repaired when
it fails will be quite a challenge. Seems like business DSL would be
less headache in the long run.
--
Wayne Gustavus
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