Hal,
Are these lines ported from a local CO? If so their is a good chance the business will not be able to port them back. Not sure
the reason but that is what happens here.
This install guideline is pathetic! Six drops? How do they manage attenuation? These eMTA's without some sort of balancing
can't possibly meet manufactures signal/noise standards. Arris for example is very picky, they generally range to a specific
set of frequencys trying to connect to the server. If the signal is too high it will stand to reason that also true the snr
will be near the noise floor. If this is the case the eMTA will range constantly resulting in dropped calls, and dropping
connectivity.
Can you post pictures of this install? What are they doing for cross connects? Thats got to look real funny! It goes to show
that the cable operators really need to be regulated much more!
You asked in your first post about amphenol and so on. Yes they can do something along those lines. To my knowledge at least
10 diffrent MTA's provide an amphenol connection with 25 pairs to the 66. Commercial and MDU services do have a new rollout
planned, thus one piece of equipment will serve multiple lines.
Here are some links;
https://www.arrisi.com/product_catalog/listers/index.asp?id=393 <-- Can support 12 lines
https://www.arrisi.com/product_catalog/listers/index.asp?id=409 <-- T1 like
It is my oppinion that a majority of the MSO's launched services to build a base, yet had no idea what to do when they got that
base. Headends and Systems got neglected, as a result customers paid the price. Its sad, but true.