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Re: I understand I don't think there is a set standard as to how other companies deploy VoIP. Vonage is an independent company; they do not own the infrastructure. It's sold as a service that works over your broadband. Vonage cannot be held responsible if your phone doesn’t work because X-cable company’s lines went down. And X-cable company cannot be held responsible because they don’t support or endorse VoIP service, so if you do it; it's done at your own risk.
Quite different from getting Adelphia VoIP (or any other Cable company VoIP). Vonage doesn’t roll trucks out to your house to fix the issues w/ your VoIP working etc etc...
It goes back to the "Yah they can make it work; but it'll be a thrown together patch-half@ss system." Not one you want to put your name on especially in our day of lawsuits galore.
The ATA186 is ONE of many ways to do it. Another example: an over builder in our system has voltage (48vts for phone) running though their lines. They have different tags on their lines if voltage runs down their drops... and they have an NID that interfaces w/ the phone NID already in your home. Yet another model is not running voltage down the drop, and instead plugging into the house for your 48vts, one option w/ battery one w/o battery. Again that goes back to a reliability issue. Yet another concept is to have taps @ the pole w/ coax ports and telco ports, where you'd run a telco-style line up to the phone (twisted pair) and hook up. I'm sure there are plenty more ideas than that..
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