A POTS circuit necessarily terminates on a piece of gear with a specific CLLI, generally discernable at order time. What that gear will be, and if it's in a CO with a "real" battery plant is also known in advance. And, to tie it back on topic, the odds of a core router being in a place where its serving switch is /not/ a real CO are, I speculate, comfortably below 10%. - jra William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
You are suggesting that it is *at all* difficult for a technically competent end-user to determine whether a given new POTS line will go to a CO or to an RSU?
Well, let me treat this as an opportunity to learn. How does one arrange for a POTS line ordered from the telco to travel its own dedicated copper pair all the way back to the central office building if the the tech tells you he only built it from one of the local holes in the ground?
Regards, Bill Herrin
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