cooldude9919
join:2000-05-29
Cape Girardeau, MO
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| Fiber Equipment
Wondering whos fiber stuff this is in a building of ours. Looks like its sbc/att's from what i can tell, but we arent using it for anything that i know off. Only other business in the building is a steak house i believe and dont think they would have a need for it. Thoughts? |
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brookzum
join:2003-06-26
Waterloo, ON | Looks like all phone stuff to me... |
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nnaarrnn
join:2004-09-30
Nitro, WV | yeah, it all looks like phone equipment. the only thing that MIGHT be fiber are the 2 redish wires on the right of the picture. hard to tell with that quality though |
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cooldude9919
join:2000-05-29
Cape Girardeau, MO
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the fujitsu has fiber inside of it, i opened it when i was there i forgot to snap a picture of it though. The Thomas betts thing up top is also for the fiber. If you look real close at the connection going from the fujitsu to the thhomas betts box you can see some yellow cables which are fiber. |
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d0nni3q
join:2006-11-05
Meadville, PA
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June 19th, @01:29PM
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The main feed is certainly fiber. Most likely a DS-3 into a copper phone system.
DQ |
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cooldude9919
join:2000-05-29
Cape Girardeau, MO
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Whats interesting is the thick black cable near the bottom of the first picture is feeding sbc/att boxes on the other side of the room. Looks like probably a ~100pair hard line cable for the phone stuff, so thats mainly what i was confused about what the fiber was for. |
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sedorox
join:2006-06-23
Williamsport, PA
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| reply to cooldude9919
The 'redish' lines on the side look like fire alarm detector/alarm lines.
The Thomas Betts box up top is the fiber splice between the outside cable (the black line running into it from the hole in the wall) to the inside cable (the cable wrap running between it and the Fujitsu).
From the looks of things, it seems to split out for telephone. I can't tell what type of service though (ds3 maybe?).
However, the lines coming out of the fujitsu lead to the block mounted under it with all the pins, which seems to lead back up to the black box next to the thomas betts, and above the fujitsu. If you look on the side of that, it might give you an indication of what suppose to plug into it (altho that seems like the power supply).
My guess is that it isn't used anymore. Also, the Adtran SmarkJack underneath has nothing to do with that fujitsu setup, except to maybe breakout T1s from it (but there is probably other equipment beyond the picture). |
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nnaarrnn
join:2004-09-30
Nitro, WV
 ·Suddenlink
| the adtran is plugged into a biscuit jack that says t-1 on it, and looks like a circuit id on the bottom of it, if there's fiber in the fujitsu box, it could be just a building-to building link. if someone in the building has another nearby building that they need phone/data connectivity that'd be the way to go. |
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cooldude9919
join:2000-05-29
Cape Girardeau, MO
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June 19th, @06:47PM
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The more i look at it i think sedorox is right, its not even being used anymore. If you look at the adtran its not even hooked up to the fiber stuff, the blue cable is whats feeding it and if you look in the second picture, one of those blue cables is the one comming from the adtran going to a rj21x block. I believe the top black box in the first picture is a 4-5 port mulitmount box for t1 cards and since there is nothing in the ethernet ports im guessing its not being used for anything. At least there is fiber in there so it should be easy if we ever want to get a ds3. |
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LazMan
join:2003-03-26
Angus, ON
 ·Bell Sympatico
·Rogers Hi-Speed
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It's a Fujitsu optical mux - either OC12 or OC3. The T&B case is the fibre splice; from the heavy black cable (Outside Plant) to the small yellow fibres wraped in the clear(ish) spiral wrap.
There's 4 T1's connected, from the looks of the interface jack below the Fuji chassis. I don't see any DS3 or optical trib's coming off...
Most likely one or more of the tennents in the building are getting PRI's for their phone system, or for data; and this is how the LEC (SBC?) is delivering the service...
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cooldude9919
join:2000-05-29
Cape Girardeau, MO
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June 19th, @08:34PM
| said by LazMan  :It's a Fujitsu optical mux - either OC12 or OC3. The T&B case is the fibre splice; from the heavy black cable (Outside Plant) to the small yellow fibres wraped in the clear(ish) spiral wrap. There's 4 T1's connected, from the looks of the interface jack below the Fuji chassis. I don't see any DS3 or optical trib's coming off... Most likely one or more of the tennents in the building are getting PRI's for their phone system, or for data; and this is how the LEC (SBC?) is delivering the service... Laz LEC is sbc, location is downtown san antonio. We do have a t1 from att for long distance with a frame-relay port. But as i said the black multimount box doesnt appear to be plugged up to anything. Even the interface jack below the fuji box doesnt appear to be going anywhere else? |
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LazMan
join:2003-03-26
Angus, ON | Hard to tell from the angle the pics were taken on - but looks like some cat-5 is connected to the terminal blocks...
Laz |
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