What's funny to me here is 10 years ago only telecomtechnogeeks like me even knew what a T1 was. Now, everybody wants a T1 in their living room.....
When I'm at the office, late at night, taking a break by doing some Freeping, I've got an entire DS3 line to myself! :-).
Mark
yeah, but 10 years ago, the real telecomtechnogeeks wanted an OC3.
I was writing orders to Western Electric to put D4 channel banks and M1C multiplexers into southern California central offices in 1980. T1 was well entrenched by 1980. I wrote orders for 56 kilobit repeaters to customer sites at that point in time as well. Those were all special orders. I even had to repair a 56 kilobit repeater frame and hand deliver it to my Western Electric installer to meet a customer deadline. They were in short supply and I couldn't wait to have the factory fix their manufacturing error. The edge card was installed on the wrong side of the backplane. It took 20 minutes to tear it down and move the connector to the right spot.
By 1986 I was creating automated service provisioning software for ISDN (2B+D) service to the customer premises. I didn't order that service for myself until 1994. The 64 kilobit symmetrical service required a dedicated pair at that time. By 1996, I was able to order a DSL line that shared my voice line pair. I've been operating in that mode for the last 11 years. My upgrade to a DMT modem from the CAP modem on Wednesday of this week was the first upgrade in service since 2000.