[Hidden-tech] Questions about DSLAMs (Digital subscriber line access multiplexers)

[Matthew S. Crocker]

You need to be a CLEC and have built into the Verizon Serving wire center before you can order DSL copper loops

You can access unbundled sub loop assemblies from a remote terminal but you need to be in the SWC and the remote terminal

I have run a couple DSLAMS in the area through my CLEC.  the copper is questionable. 

The hardest part is interfacing and ordering with Verizon. 

> On Nov 29, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
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> Given that MBI/AXIA will be lighting up the fiber backbone in the next couple 
> of months, I have some thoughts and questions.
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> It is likely going to be 3-5 years before the fiber last mile is completed, 
> but I had a thought about a possible interum solution, but I am not sure about 
> if/how it could work.
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> My (limited) understanding about DSLAM technology is that it connects the 
> existing copper analog phone lines to some sort of Internet backbone, commonly 
> in the form of a high speed digital interface (like a T1 or fiber connection) 
> to a central office.  I was wondering: is is technically possible to connect a 
> 'remote' DSLAM (eg like in the center of a small hill town like Wendell) to 
> the MBI/AXIA fiber backbone, instead of running a connection back to the 
> teleco (Verizon) Central Office?  This would allow providing DSL services over 
> the existing copper using the MBI/AXIA fiber backbone as the backhaul.
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> If it is *technically possible*, what are the regularitory issues involved?  I 
> presume this might be doable by a CLEC, but could a "Municipal Light Plant" do 
> it?  Most of the (small) towns in Western Mass have created MLPs for the 
> purpose of telecommunication and to join with the Wired West cooperative.
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