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Doug Humphrey (doug@ss2.digex.net) wrote:
: >What is the determining factor as to whether or not incoming lines are
: >analog or multiplexed and require a SLC96?

: The telephone company is the sole determining factor - the customer
: orders "a phone line" and not "a phone line on copper" or "a phone 
: line on SLC96/fiber".  The telephone company then provisions the 
: line however they wish, and the customer has absolutely no say in 
: this.

Doug is right. With the experience I have had with BA so far, they choose 
the most practical route for them to install 2000 phone lines. If BA had 
to install anything over 100 lines like they do in a house, adding the 
lines wire by wire, then it would basically turn into a big copper mess. 
It is far more easier to bring in a few single-mode fibre lines than it 
is to bring in thousands of copper lines to a customer such as Digex and 
other ISPs for that matter. Think about it.  Besides, an OWC-3 fibre 
cabinet more flexable then anything else IMHO.

				Just my thoughts
					-Dale G.