I’ve got a similar perspective to most of you from the other side of the demarc too…
The basic building blocks of the switched and/or copper networks are getting harder and harder to buy and often “no longer supported.†:shrug:
I’ll go to many of the conglomerated Telco equipment manufactures web-sites to look up an extremely commonly used part and what I’ll see is them touting their new fangled state-of-the-art OC-One-Bazillion-n-6 system
… and the part number I’m looking for is not found and it’s for a DS1 something-or-another that we have millions of deployed. :bang:
… How in the world did I get on this soap-box?!?!?!?!
Ed, was this yours? You can have it back now.