Qwest fiber to the neighborhood [Telecom]

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Qwest fiber to the neighborhood [Telecom] Ted Lee 06-24-2008
Posted by Ted Lee on June 24, 2008, 7:22 pm
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Over the last month or so Qwest has buried one of those big orange
fiber cables into our neighborhood, installing a large new junction
box above ground (refrigerator sized) and some kind of underground
concrete "vault" too. These were installed close to the existing
junction box that I believe serves the neighborhood -- it's three or
four blocks from our house (and I suspect is where our DSL circuit
terminates, since initially we couldn't get it because we're too far
from the CO and that junction box itself was new a few years ago.)
All the lines in our suburban neighborhood are buried, the initial
installation being maybe 35 years ago -- I don't remember if the
"corner post" that serves 4-6 adjacent houses was there before our
house was built on an empty lot, but it sure was by the time we moved
in. Anyway, what kind of service improvements or other changes should
I be looking forward to? (Several field trucks have been parked near
the new junction box days in a row now.)

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Ted Lee
Minnetonka, MN


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Posted by Steven Lichter on June 25, 2008, 7:26 pm
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Ted Lee wrote:
> Over the last month or so Qwest has buried one of those big orange
> fiber cables into our neighborhood, installing a large new junction
> box above ground (refrigerator sized) and some kind of underground
> concrete "vault" too. These were installed close to the existing
> junction box that I believe serves the neighborhood -- it's three or
> four blocks from our house (and I suspect is where our DSL circuit
> terminates, since initially we couldn't get it because we're too far
> from the CO and that junction box itself was new a few years ago.)
> All the lines in our suburban neighborhood are buried, the initial
> installation being maybe 35 years ago -- I don't remember if the
> "corner post" that serves 4-6 adjacent houses was there before our
> house was built on an empty lot, but it sure was by the time we moved
> in. Anyway, what kind of service improvements or other changes should
> I be looking forward to? (Several field trucks have been parked near
> the new junction box days in a row now.)
>

Sounds like Qwest is about to start deploying something like at&t
U-verse type system, Fiber to the interface and copper the last few
hundred feet, or if you are lucky Fiber right to your door.

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Posted by Robert Neville on June 25, 2008, 7:26 pm
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>Anyway, what kind of service improvements or other changes should
>I be looking forward to?

I suspect this is what you are seeing:

http://www.qwest.com/vdsl/learn/vdsl.html


Posted by Ted Lee on June 26, 2008, 8:40 pm
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>
>>Anyway, what kind of service improvements or other changes should
>>I be looking forward to?
>
> I suspect this is what you are seeing:
>
> http://www.qwest.com/vdsl/learn/vdsl.html

Yes, I'm sure that's what it is, although after doing some searching
it appears they don't have plans to provide anything other than an
internet connection over the fiber -- that the means for video
delivery in most service areas will still be the partnership with
DirecTV. Does anyone know if when they install fiber to get the
faster DSL if they now carry the voice circuits over it too, or do
those still go over the existing copper path back to the CO?

--
Ted Lee
Minnetonka, MN


Posted by danny burstein on June 26, 2008, 9:44 pm
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>Yes, I'm sure that's what it is, although after doing some searching
>it appears they don't have plans to provide anything other than an
>internet connection over the fiber -- that the means for video
>delivery in most service areas will still be the partnership with
>DirecTV. Does anyone know if when they install fiber to get the
>faster DSL if they now carry the voice circuits over it too, or do
>those still go over the existing copper path back to the CO?

Can't give you any specifics about their choice regarding
voice service, but the tv issue is (probably) a regulatory one.

In many areas anyone providing wired transport of television
signals to homes (i.e. "cable tv") that crosses over
the streets has to get a "franchise" or "license" from
the local gov't.

Hence, in NYS, for example, Verizon was providing internet
and voice over their FIOS glass, but... in most areas
they had to use the DirecTV partnership for television.

They did get permission from some individual communities
to handle television directly, and NYC is about to come
onboard as well.

(They're also trying very hard to get a state-wide certificate
that would override local regs, and are also pushing for
similar changes on the national level).


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