christcorp
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| reply to LL Kul
Re: F2 Conditioning
A normal phone line to your home is comprised normally of 2 parts; an F1 is the main feed cable from the central office to a CrossBox. It is a direct shot. The F2 is from that crossbox where it spider webs in different directions to the actual pedestal or telephone pole that is going to connect to your house. There are also 2 other options. If the central office is a fiber or T1's feeding a Pair Gain unit which multiplexes up to 24 numbers per T1 line, than can also be the F1, with the F2 going from the Pair Gain to the crossbox, and then an F3 from the crossbox to the pole or pedestal near your house. There's also some that have a direct connect from the central office to a pole or pedestal near their house. In that case they only have an F1.
Anyway, when they say they are conditioning the cable, it doesn't really matter if they say F1, F2, or F3. The conditioning is still the same. They are either taking load coils out (Cleans up a pair of wires because of extremely long distances. Gets rid of noise from inductance and AC); removing bridge taps (When the same cable pair goes to more than 1 pole or pedestal so it's available in more than one location so when it's not used in one place, it can be used some place else); repairing a cable that is on the brink of failing; or re-routing pairs and dedicating them to get the most direct shot without having the bridge tap issue I just mentioned.
Assuming that there isn't an F3 in the case of a pair gain, a normal F2 conditioning is taking out load coils and/or bridge taps. Later... Mike.... |
