Dsl what does the phone co when upgrading

[indy030]

Hello just want get some info on what my local telco (sprint)
has to do to upgrade the local co to offer dsl ? and what they have to do to my house or wiring ect ready for dsl

thanks all surf nice

[hazmatcar]

I work for a Baby Bell in Indy as a Subrate Tech DSL install and repair is one of my jobs. All the COs must have whats called a DSLAM. The DSLAM prodvides the DATA pipe to the internet on a
POTS grade loop. The DSLAM rack is not cheap they run $30k to
over $1m!!!. With DSLAM in place then there must be good copper pairs leaving the CO (no load coil(s), no brige tap(s),repeaters, and loop length under 12k' to 18k' depending on your phone company or CLECS (private resaler) loop standards. If
you are over the length as stated above. Then the phone company will have to extend fiber (OC-12) to somewhere near your area. They do this with under ground valts called CEVs or
RTS Remote terminals again not cheap. Its a mini CO in other words. If one of these are in place and you can have DSL after you order it.An order will go in to provision a good loop. A tech will dispatched from your local phone company provider with the order to connect your DSL.The tech will test for loads,faults and good cont. with the CO tech. If all the test pass the tech will tag the line in your network inteface(DEMARK) the box where your phone service is at. This is where most baby bells stop.
A tech from the ISP will come out to do the inside wire,jack and set up of your new DSL.. I hope this helps you.:2cool:

[indy030]

Yes that thanks alot , explains alot I hoping for sprint ion here down in good old Franklin in, 2nd I M about 5000ft from the co ( most of the town is) sprint being my local and long distance here

I think most of indy is ameritech or gte Is Dsl avaialble in INDY ?yet use to be iIheard ameritech suppose to have the Ind service area ready for dsl by oct ? then again I also hoping for insight@home but really want sprint ion my local isp is offering a t1 connection for 399$ month not counting hookup from sprint

[hazmatcar]

Yes Ameritech has DSL in INDY I install about 15 a week of the line share DSL and about 5 for resalers like Covad and ACI. The number of resale DSL is going down because some of the companys have had to close shop due to high start up cost and low profits.I have @home no contract and lower cost. I may switch one day.

[MosDef112]

Hey.. How hard is it to get trained on how to do DSL installs/troubleshooting? I'd love to do that for a living, tired of being a PC tech.

[hazmatcar]

Depends on what side of the custumer you want to work on.I work on the regulated for Ameritech up to the demark. We do not
do any inside work on DSL. Only cross connects,drop wire,NI upgrade,testing and tagging. You would have to work for a babybell and be trained in POTS,CENTEX,56k,64kdata,ISDN,DID trunks,P-sets,ground start, and DSL.If you want to do the inside part jacks,wire, modem setup,router, and PC setup you have to work for a private vender like ACI,COVAD,IQWEST,and so on.

[hazmatcar]

Oh and also its not real hard just decide which side you want to
work and find out who is hiring and give them a call.Note if you want to work on the outside DSL is only a small part of the job in the babybell you will do it all.

[MosDef112]

I was thinking more like baby bell type of work, like all the stuff you said above. Any idiot with some common sense can do the inside wiring part of it, or what the Covad techs were paid to do.