On the matter of the type of cabling to be used between the Telco Demarc and the
CPE, I have found this to be one of the most shrouded of all areas in telecom
standards. The jabber and deliberations that have taken place over this issue
border on folk lore and hijinx, and could fill a plant
Forrest W. Christian wrote:
In Qwest land, NIU, Smart Jack, and Demarc (unless
extended) are all in the same physical rack.
When you get a T1, qwest installs an appropriately
sized shelf. This shelf holds the adtran and
westell devices shown in earlier posts. For example,
we have one site
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've seen where STP (shielded twisted-pair cabling) purists have
succeeded in having shielded cabling used, only to screw it up by
mis-applying the necessary grounding connections causing more
problems than they solved.
I have also seen funny issues with RJ48C or
OK, from my reading in Newton's Telecom Dictionary, it appears that NIU
is a generic term for whatever the customer plugs their cable into,
be it a powered or a dumb device. Mea culpa.
However, the writeup on smart jack reads, in part:
...installed on the premises as a semi-intelligent
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Christopher Woodfield wrote:
OK, from my reading in Newton's Telecom Dictionary, it appears that NIU
is a generic term for whatever the customer plugs their cable into,
be it a powered or a dumb device. Mea culpa.
...
...installed on the premises as a semi-intelligent
