Telephone Improvements coming --

[phonebuff]

I can't resist cross posing this here --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSTOT7RBkNc&feature=youtu.be

 

[MyKroFt]

I can remember those "bell" ringers in those things - loud enough to wake the dead

 

[briankelly63]

Someday you'll push buttons instead of dial and we'll roll out a new dialtone and busy signal!

http://www.telephonetribute.com/audio/dial_tone.wav

http://www.telephonetribute.com/audio/busy.wav

MF Signaling, remember you'd hear this on most LD calls...

http://www.telephonetribute.com/audio/trunk_signal.wav

 

[YoungOrtho]

That's awesome!

Are many of those wires that were installed in 1954 still in use?

 

[phonebuff]

Just for the DSL service in My Neighboorhood.

That's awesome!

Are many of those wires that were installed in 1954 still in use?

 

[blanchae]

Mainly for "the last mile" in older neighborhoods. That's the problem that the telco's have had. New installs have fiber, the older neighborhoods are getting FTTN (fiber to the neighborhood). In the green box (never remember the name) where the copper is terminated, they're putting in dsl equipment and fiber to the CO. The shorter distance from the green box to the home, means that they can run higher transfer rates to the home.

I've watched the green box across the street from my place slowly grow into two large boxes filled with dsl equipment, fiber and copper terminations. Quite interesting.

 

[Alex728]

I can remember those "bell" ringers in those things - loud enough to wake the dead

I've got a British Post Office Type 746 telephone made in 1972 (year of my birth) connected to my home PIAF via a PAP2T

 

[Alex728]

That's awesome!

Are many of those wires that were installed in 1954 still in use?

not sure about the dropwire (this gets replaced over the years) but in the village I work in there is a telephone pole which is marked "GPO 55" which means it dates back from 1955 - like most European nations the telephone company was originally nationalised and part of the General Post Office..

 

[MyKroFt]

I've got a British Post Office Type 746 telephone made in 1972 (year of my birth) connected to my home PIAF via a PAP2T

how about a pic

 

[ukstevef]

how about a pic

http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/phones_1960-80.htm#746 enjoy

 

[atsak]

Mainly for "the last mile" in older neighborhoods. That's the problem that the telco's have had. New installs have fiber, the older neighborhoods are getting FTTN (fiber to the neighborhood). In the green box (never remember the name) where the copper is terminated, they're putting in dsl equipment and fiber to the CO. The shorter distance from the green box to the home, means that they can run higher transfer rates to the home.

I've watched the green box across the street from my place slowly grow into two large boxes filled with dsl equipment, fiber and copper terminations. Quite interesting.

In Ontario they call those green boxes stingers (because that's what the name of the technology is inside them for FTTN). I assume Telus is the same as Bell in that way.

 

[blanchae]

I've got an old step by step switch that we use for demostration purposes. It's only good for about 3 or 4 digits. Wonder if I could interface it to Asterisk.

 

[Alex728]

I've got an old step by step switch that we use for demostration purposes. It's only good for about 3 or 4 digits. Wonder if I could interface it to Asterisk.

loads of people do across the world..

https://www.ckts.info/

 

[briankelly63]

Used to have a small Bell System PBX that handled about 60 extensions. It was about 6 feet high and had three giant slide out racks with power supply, dial circuits and crossbar switches. Was in the 600-700 series I believe. Mechanical marvel!

 

[blanchae]

Here's a pretty nice youtube video of a step by step switch in action