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Re: [PLUG] DCANet DSL Offerings (WAS: Speakeasy/COVAD outages yesterday)
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William H. Magill wrote:
DS3 is a "fat pipe" -- 45meg baud. It's the circuit from which 15 T1
lines are made.
Ok.
COVAD, I believe, is a CLEC -- Competitive Local Exchange Carrier.
...
COVAD, like Cavtel (Cavalier Telephone) "purchases" the copper
circuit for the last mile (from the CO to your home) from the ROBC.
Once that circuit is "deeded" over to the CLEC, it is terminated in a
separate location in the CO facility which belongs to the CLEC. In
that facility, for DSL lines, is located the DSLAM -- Digital
Subscriber Local Access Module. It is owned by the CLEC. A DSLAM,
like the old modem pool cards, typically has either 4 or 8 local
loops connected to it. That DSLAM and each individual port on it
belong to the CLEC who can maintain them however they wish.
Typically, the DSLAM has some kind of remote management capability.
Ok.
Thanks very much for this explanation.
Would the DS3 be the responsibility of the CLEC or the RBOC?
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