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From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Randy Whitney <randy.whitney@verizon.com> wrote:
Nothing beats POTS in a broad power outage scenario. Numerous power outages have taken down mobile service completely while the POTS lines stayed up as it carries its own power by design.
Carries it from somewhere that has to remain powered which typically isn't a building with an automatic generator any more. Access to the POTS lines of yesteryear is dwindling and not all that slowly.
Oh, I dunno, Bill. Sure there are lots more RSUs than there used to be, but at least it's not all *that* hard to tell if you're connected to one. Much easier than, say, finding out if both sides of your loop have been groomed into the same cable. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274