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I am building a house near my parents house approximatley 1500 ft apart. I want to connect the two houses with OPX's (analog ext's)from each phone system. They have a DK40i (3X14)and I will have a Partner ACS (4x22). My phone installer intends to use the CO protectors as the primary protection and install IROBS in each of the phone closets for secondary protection. Is this adequate protection for a configuration like this?

Note: The drops (buried) going to each house are fed from the same pedestal and will be spliced together there per the phone company. Each house has a 6 pair drop and primary protector so he will be connecting the dry pairs to the last two unused pairs on each.

The telco is letting you use their buried service wire and even making the splices in the pedestal?

Besides that I would be concerned that the next guy is going to put dial tone on an extension pair and wipe out a port when it rings.

If I were you I would be looking at running my own cable.

-Hal

This is a large estate property and these two houses are the only ones fed from this pedestal. I anticipated there being an issue using "their" cable so I had my phone installer put the drops in so technically they belong to me. The phone company installer was more than happy to not have to do it himself. He just connected the DT to the appropriate pairs. I also didn't want "them" deciding where to bury it because of the extensive landscaping and concrete/brick pathways, etc.

Is the protection he is planning going to be sufficient?

Looks to be.

-Hal

Thanks.

Hint: Take an "official-looking" tag (one that fell off a phone company truck) and write something cryptic on it about private circuits, not to be used, etc, and fasten it to the spliced pairs in the pedestal. The typical field person will be reluctant to mess with pairs that might bring the fire department or launch a missile.

We used to have official tags that said:

"ALARM PAIRS. DO NOT OPEN, GROUND, CROSS, SHORT OR IN ANY WAY MANIPULATE THESE PAIRS BEFORE FIRST CALLING THE CONTROL DESK AT XXX-XXX-99xx"

(Use a phone number that is the local CO busy test number. That should slow them down and make their brains hurt.)

Thanks Arthur for the insight!!

I don't think it will be an issue as this pedestal is only serving our two houses so once my 4 CO lines go in the phone company shouldn't need to access it unless we lose a dial tone and need repair. Also, since I am providing the drops at my expense I wouldn't think they could say anything about me using the last two pairs for OPX's. Tagging them with something cryptic would surely ward off any installer. Hopefully they would have better things to do than worry about a splice in the pedestal. If it became an issue I will just threaten to take all of my phone service to another provider. This usually shuts them up fast!!

Again, thanks for the advice.

i think you could set up a distribution point between 2 buildings,and use OSP copper box to distribute Telecom cable,then use drop cable to connect the house.