Muck finds the Pairgain From Hell.

spongebob

Its called a Gemini !

carriers can use an optional power unit in the central office that sends power to Gemini systems in the field.

Quite so . Anything else ?

The Gemini box includes both a simple network management protocol (SNMP) interface and command-line interface that designers can tap for local or remote management. It is generally available and is priced at approximately $150 per port

So it costs about €120 a port , very nice . It supports carrier grade remote management for tracing line faults in rural areas without sending an engineer out. Thats very clever in this day and age. Any other cool features lads. ?

Dubbed Gemini, the DSLAM is a 7-inch cube that includes a 24-port ADSL2+ module developed around silicon from Broadcom Corp. The system includes a Layer 2 switch module based on a Marvell Semiconductor Inc. Ethernet switch IC and a PowerPC processor. The Ethernet switch module also includes two optical Gigabit Ethernet ports that can be used for backhaul or for scaling the DSLAM to 192 ports.

Ahhhhhh . This pairgain is the width of a telephone pole and contains

A Gigabit Ethernet Switch
24 ADSL2+ Line Modules which provide up to 24Mbits down a copper pair.

Personally I can accept this class of pairgain, it supports functional internet access and wont make Eircoms rotten telephone poles fall over. Ya could even make an oul telephone call over it. it can be retrofitted onto existing lines very easily and cheaply . Can we tell Comreg about this please . Comreg seem to believe a modern pairgain cannot really support any kind of data at all beyond an ISDN channel .

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Piccie for the slow learner.

Specciefor the Techie

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mrblack

Since it allows fast BB and would appear to solve a lot of Eircom's customers problems and is cheap- shouldn't this thread be renamed "Muck finds a pairgain from Heaven"

spongebob

Looking at the Spirit of the law on LLU as well as the Letter of the law on LLU I see no reason why LLU cannot be allowed by unbundling the subloop "at the Pole" and running fibre "to the Pole" and not force carriers to pay extortionate rental and access charges to Eircom for LLU "in the Exchange" which is all that is proposed at present......especially if the exchange is too bloody far away over cruddy Eircom copper anyway .

This innovative approach could best be named Sub or Copper Half Loop UnBundling On the Pole or SCHLUP . I think it somehow appropriate that Comreg be world leaders in the creation of the unique and radical SCHLUP regulatory framework given the total sh1te they made of Pure LLU :rolleyes: . Muck likes symmetrical regulation you see !

Muck will waive all intellectual property wotsits as long as the Acronym is elegant and monosyllabic.....hence SCHLUP . Hop to it and give us an oul consultation on d'oul SCHLUP lads . It has a nice sound for an Irish Acronym , that 'je ne sais quoi' quality to which we all aspire at heart. It may actually be of some use, unlike the LLU regulations until 2007 at the earliest.

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captainpat

Gotta be SCHLLUP to keep the original need! What a difference a "U" makes?

tribble

OMG I want pairgain!