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| From | danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.dcom.telecom |
| Subject | Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] |
| Date | 2011-04-04 19:52 +0000 |
| Organization | The Telecom Digest |
| Message-ID | <ind7im$rr$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <incj72$38f$1@panix2.panix.com> <20110404155445.14920.qmail@joyce.lan> <1s5kp6dasu6noln1cecjtnterhj0hj5mql@4ax.com> |
In <1s5kp6dasu6noln1cecjtnterhj0hj5mql@4ax.com> Eric Tappert <e.tappert.spamnot@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>Besides, providing premises power requires copper; fiber doesn't
>transmit that level of power very well, so a separate copper plant
>would have to be maintained. That would make FiOS an additional
>infrastructure, not a replacement infrastructure.
I've got to wonder a bit about that, at least from
a pure, technical, side.
Back in the 1980s I remember articles in Science News
about the (for then) super high efficiency solar cells
coming out of Bell Labs research. (Yes, children, once
upon a time there was this company, in New Jersey!, that
did lots of ground breaking research).
It wouldn't work for a commercial complex with multiple
phone systems in place (which have generally required
local utility power anyway [a]), but I wouldn't be surprised
if, given a few nudges in teh right direction, we'd have
phones and related equipment that could, indeed, be
powered by the laser/fiber light stream.
And... we'd also have seen quite a bit of improvement
in small sized, high density, storage cells - that would
"charge up" from the laser between calls.
And the consumer premises equipment ("CPE") would
be far more energy efficient than what's now in
common use.
[a] typically there'd be a couple of phone sets which
had "power failure pass through", getting direct dial
tone from the CO.
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RE: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "AJB Consulting" <ajbcs@frontier.com> - 2011-04-01 09:22 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-01 19:49 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "AJB Consulting" <ajbcs@frontier.com> - 2011-04-02 10:31 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-02 17:01 -0700
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-02 10:42 -0700
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-02 17:45 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-02 22:18 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-03 18:18 -0700
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2011-04-04 10:05 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-04-04 15:54 +0000
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Eric Tappert <e.tappert.spamnot@worldnet.att.net> - 2011-04-04 15:24 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2011-04-04 19:52 +0000
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-04-04 17:00 -0700
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-10 13:55 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com> - 2011-04-11 15:35 +1000
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-04-11 08:39 -0700
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com> - 2011-04-12 08:29 +1000
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-04-11 21:42 -0500
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-12 20:09 -0700
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Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> - 2011-04-05 10:52 -0400
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "AJB Telecom" <ajbtelecom@frontier.com> - 2011-04-06 09:25 -0400
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Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2011-04-02 20:23 -0500
Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-02 16:51 -0700
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