Networks are aging, parts are unavailable, and technicians are
retiring. If your organization uses copper-based services, make
a plan to eliminate them quickly.
https://www.nojitter.com/consultant-perspectives/decommissioning-copper-gets-real
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:58:41PM -0700, Fred Atkinson wrote:
Networks are aging, parts are unavailable, and technicians are
retiring. If your organization uses copper-based services, make
a plan to eliminate them quickly.
https://www.nojitter.com/consultant-perspectives/decommissioning-copper-gets-real
The "nojitter" article is a paen to the all-mighty "MOTHER BELL" and
her infinite wisdom: Ms. Munro's breathless boosterism includes these paragraphs:
Carriers have quietly tried to eliminate POTS lines, DSL, primary
rate interfaces (PRIs), and private data services delivered over
this old copper cable network. Carriers have been slowly
attempting to discourage continued use of these services, by
increasing pricing, not renewing contracts, ending maintenance
and support, and requiring customers to move to VoIP (fiber)
based services.
The subtle approach changed recently when Verizon Business sent a
notice to all of its channel sales organizations that said all
customers with a current VZB POTS line must completely migrate to
a new product no later than April 30, 2022. Customers who don'dt
migrate will be subject to disconnection on or after April 30,
2022. Verizon Business operates in about a dozen states. Though
Verizon Business only mentions POTS lines, this announcement has
big implications for everyone.
First, the obvious: VoIP is not equal to fiber. Phone companies love
VoIP because it hides a multitude of sins, like the ongoing efforts to shuffle all trunk lines on to the Internet, thus externalizing the
cost of maintaining them on to <anyone else>. The virtual-circuit, switched-with-links-in-tandem paradigm is now passé. What nobody wants
to think about is the dramatic increases in fire and theft insurnce
costs which the business owners are soon to be hit with, since their dedicted-pair phone lines are soon to be "as available" connections
which are neither "always on," nor reliable.
Second, the all-too-obvious: "Carriers" haven't done anything
"quietly." They have been trying, in ways both subtle and gross, to
rid themselve of their well-paid, hard-working, loyal, and, yes, aging
union workforce. It seems the old "Get in the truck" dedication and
"hard work is its own reward" tradition is no longer fashionable, at
least when the executives at the ilec's have to choose between their million-dollar bonuses or loyalty to the men and women who made them possible, and the union men who raised their familiess and paid their mortgages with notions of hard work, best-in-the-world service, and no-excuses "always on" service are soon to be museum displays.
Bill
Networks are aging, parts are unavailable, and technicians are
retiring. If your organization uses copper-based services, make a
plan to eliminate them quickly.
Carriers have quietly tried to eliminate POTS lines, DSL, primary
rate interfaces (PRIs), and private data services delivered over
this old copper cable network. Carriers have been slowly
attempting to discourage continued use of these services, by
increasing pricing, not renewing contracts, ending maintenance
and support, and requiring customers to move to VoIP (fiber)
based services.
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