said by JohnB :The ONT(optical network terminal, for those who didn't know) is manufactured by Alcatel-Lucent. It is always mounted indoors, usually wear existing wiring enters the home. The battery back up provides 8 hours of phone USE, and a lot more for standby time. However, cordless phones would still not work no matter what technology the phone line used.
The address the comment about backyard poles, there are cases in Sudbury where yes, we have ran the fibre along that line. However, there are also cases(holland ave) where it was ran on the pole which carries hydro and cable only prior to fibreop.
Ok, glad they're going with the inside ONTs - it seems they were using the outdoor grey-box type when the available documents were written ( »
productsandservice.bella ··· uide.pdf ). Regardless of where they're running the conduit I should be able to have it installed where I need it then.
Regarding power backup, I wasn't really asking about the ONT but the equipment at the CO end. POTS is nice since in a power outage a parasitic phone will work as long as there's backup power there - I am wondering if this new network will be on the same support infrastructure or if not.
You seem to have sidestepped my questions about expected delivery dates, but hopefully we will hear more soon?
