[BC] Verizon T1 and batteries

[Leon D. Zetekoff]

On 4/29/2010 12:27 PM, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
> Many areas are now served, not by a central office, but by basically a mini-cell. Telephone coming/going to those areas have local transcriber boxes mounted on the poles. If power is out in the neighborhood, you get no telephone as a bonus. Furthermore, even FIOS requires some active connectors (optical switches) which, if the power is lost, you have no service as well.
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> TELCOs have convinced the regulators (those that still exist) that a power outage is such a remote possibility and if the power is out, the lines are surely down as well, that there is no need to continue to power the local loop.
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> If you want truly reliable communications nowadays, you need point-to-point microwave links with uninterruptible power on both ends. The FCC is no longer licensing terrestrial microwave for mere civilians I have been told. Even existing TV microwave is being phased out so there are no NEW applications allowed.
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> However, there are license-free bands that are usually reliable, except during rainstorms, snowstorms, blowing sand, high winds, and the whiff of cigar smoke. http://www.meridianptpwireless.com/#chart
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> If you have a good visual shot between the two end-points, with adequate Fresnell zone protection, http://www.terabeam.com/solutions/whitepapers/plan_micro_link.php you just might be able to take the so-called utility companies out of the picture.
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Hi Richard et al...

I know the FCC is licensing Part 101 microwave. THe company I now work 
for PAETEC, and others, are doing licensed links. Unlicensed spectrum is 
very usable as well (I used to work for a WISP in NoVA and also was 
going to start my own up). 900, 2.4, 5.x 3.65 (lite-licensed) and up.

Check out Ligowave for carrier class stuff and Deliberant Wireless for 
the standards based equipment.

I know the folks and they are doing good stuff.

Feel free to poke me for info.

Leon WA4ZlW