[OT] Vonage vs. Cox

[Michael]

I was doing a phone job and had to replace a faceplate. Put the wrong one on. 
Killed everyone downstream.... I don't do phones anymore:^(

On Thursday 13 April 2006 23:06, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> Actually, Cox telephone is not VoIP, but it is digitized fairly early.  As
> I understand it they use a proprietary digital voice transport using one of
> the subcarrier bands in the coax cable from the CPE AD/DA MUX up to the
> fiber headend, then it's transferred to ATM over the HFC SONET ring (same
> route as the IP traffic, just higher priority) back to their CO switch. 
> The run a pretty much standard digital voice network from there out.  At no
> point does the voice data transfer to IP packets. They are regulated as a
> normal telephone carrier, so they provide +90DC power to the CPE, full 911
> support, battery backup at every step, etc...  They have to meet the same
> NEBS requirements QWest does, so it's a lot more reliable than any VoIP
> provider can be. In the almost 8 years I've had Cox phone, they went out
> once, for about 4 hours, and that was because some nimrod tech ignored the
> "telephone active" tag on my line and put a bad splitter on the line adding
> my neighbor's digital cable. In contrast I've lost Cox internet on the same
> line for a total of over 60 days in the same 8 years, mostly because they
> can't seem to maintain decent signal strength on my line at the CPE
> entrance.
>
> ==Joseph++
>
> Gene Holmerud wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:40:02 -0700, Dan Lund
> >
> > <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Just IP.
> >> Cox phone is just normal phone service.
> >
> > Hugh?  Are you sure Cox phone is not Voice over IP (VoIP), just like
> > Vonage, Lingo, Packet 8, etc.?  Sure you use a normal phone, but the
> > sound  is digitized to IP packets before being put on the cable, or on
> > receive,  the sound is reconstituted (D-A) before being put on the
> > 2-wire to your  normal phone.
> >
> > Gene
> >
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