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Date: 16 Jun 2012 13:25:20 -0400
From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: MOH box ID
Message-ID: <jrifi0$ovf$1@panix2.panix.com>
ABLE1 <royboynospam@somewhere.net> wrote:
>
>Presently it is working just fine but the current message needs to
>be changed to something new. Customer has no documentation and the
>original installer is non existent. I think that a CD with a
>Message File, .MP3 or .wav or something is loaded and the message
>then is transferred to Memory where it plays in an endless loop.
Most of these just take DA volumes, ordinary music CDs. try one.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:50:58 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Ring voltage measurment question
Message-ID: <jria12$4ed$1@reader1.panix.com>
Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com> writes:
>> [1] Is there a name for that cabinet? The central office is ca. 13
>> miles away, the cabinet only 4 as the wire runs.
>Probably Digital loop carrier.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_loop_carrier
>
The clue is: does it get power? Any DLC will need power,
and backup battery within.
If no electric meter, it's a 'cross-connect cabinet' or 'xconn'
or 'XC'. Local usage varies; the term IDF for 'intermediate
distribution facility' may be used in other places.
But at 68 kilofeet, I'd think DLC.
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:24:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Star 69 is a joke?
Message-ID: <db9c99b5-790f-4ff4-8a64-ffcdb5271e7a@m8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 10, 9:21 pm, Justin Goldberg <justgol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is star 69 a joke in the USA? Did they have to choose the one number
> between 1 and a hundred with a prurient meaning?
I don't think SEPTA and its predecessors were joking when they built
the 69th Street transit terminal Terminal, or when developers built
the adjacent 69th Street shopping district.
weak obtelecom: I've heard the exchange serving the terminal area,
FLanders 2 in Upper Darby, was relatively late getting converted to
dial, circa 1961. Is there any way to research when an exchange was
converted to dial? Thanks. (This was a busy commercial and
residential area and as such I'd be surprised they'd let it stay
manual for so long.)
Date: 16 Jun 2012 02:39:02 -0300
From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Ring voltage measurment question
Message-ID: <87wr37hl3d.fsf@nudel.nodomain.nowhere>
bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) writes:
> In article <87y5nprf9v.fsf@nudel.nodomain.nowhere>,
> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
> >
> >[1] Is there a name for that cabinet? The central office is ca. 13
> > miles away, the cabinet only 4 as the wire runs.
>
> Frequently referred to, generally, as a 'vault', especially if underground.
> Above-ground units may be called a 'pedestal' (if small) or a 'hut' (if big
> enough to walk into).
>
> Beyond that, "it depends". <grin>
[further details snipped]
Medium sized, two-door cabinet, not walk-in.
and Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com> wrote:
> Probably Digital loop carrier.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_loop_carrier
>
>
> Does the box you mention look like the photo in Wikipedia?
Yes, but also like the one at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_concentrator
Rural area, guessing a few hundred scattered dwellings, no industry or
commerce nearby. A friend who lives close -- 1/2 mi. -- to a similar
cabinet (but far from the CO) can have ADSL because of that
proximity. That may identify what lives in the cabinet.
Would the telco device that actually generated my ring voltage be
located in that DLC/RLC/box?
I know, I know, "it depends". :-) I'll have to go take a closer look
at it. If there's a nice little tag that identifies it, it isn't
readable when passing at the usual 100' at highway speed.
Tnx,
--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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