neighborhood broadband gateway question

[desmocat]

I can finally see the light at the end of the broadband tunnel http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
Southwestern Bell is laying fiber about 150 yards from my house to an enclosure that will have the DSLAMS in it to serve my neighborhood.
My question is about how long should it take for them to get it up and running?
I have tried to ask the telco, but all I get put in touch with are either sales reps or dingbats who don't have a clue when I ask about turnup time for these.

I know it will vary by location,just looking for a baseline timeframe.
Has anyone here had one of these installed somewhere near your home/business and could tell me about how long it took before they were operational? Just kinda wondering how long it would be..
DSL....I can smell it....

One last thing, the squeky wheel gets the grease, would it help if I recruited some of the neighbors to call the telco alot asking the same thing?

[jim.t]

Not sure about DSL, but when cable layed fiberoptics for broadband around my neighborhood, it took roughly 4-6 weeks to be put on the installation schedule, then another 10-14 days after that to actually have someone show up at the house. Can't believe I've ever had anything else BUT broadband. It's great.

[bigpoppasmooth]

Going by Verizon standards...there are none. I know people that have made thier order and be operational in 2-3 weeks and then I know people who ordered DSL through AOL and are still waiting a year now.
My friend does installation for Verizon and he dosen't even know how long it takes. He says that all he sees is the install date and unless the customer tells him he has no idea when they put thier order in.
Sorry for the no-help, but at least you know you're not alone.

[desmocat]

Hey, did a little diggin at SBC's site and came up with some pretty interesting info on these things..
1.They will use single mode fiber between nodes and will use OC3 SONET between nodes.
this means that each NGDLC(next generation digital loop carrier) will have a 155 Mega bits per second pipe straight back to the CO.
(PHAT PIPE!!)
2.The neighborhood gateways to be installed will effectively shorten the copper loops for DSL to less than 12Kft from the remote terminal.
3.A separate dedicated OC3c will beused to transport data from the RT (remote terminal) to the CO.
(background here, OC3c means concatenated, which means that the entire bandwidth is one single channel,not split into 3 DS3's)
AND another OC3 will be used for voice.
Man!, they are going to spend some bucks on doing all of this. I did some research on high speed access and the prices were astronomical!
get a load of these prices:
(all from infobahn.com)

T1- 24 DS0 channels 1.544 Mbps $1,200/month
T3- (28 T1's) 43.232 Mbps $28,000/month
OC3- 155Mbps (100 T1's) $49,000/month
OC12 622 Mbps (ha ha ha, if ya gotta ask..)
OC48 2.5 Gbps (are you sitting down?)
OC192 9.6 Gbps (have a defibrillator handy)
The comments on the last three are my own but I bet they would be pretty close to what they would tell ya.
If the telco can put OC3's in a bunch of neighborhoods, I would really like to know the true cost of running one of them. I mean come on, 49 grand A MONTH!!? Somebodys getting rich..
I realize that the hardware is probably very expensive but what are they trying to do,recoup the cost in the first couple of months? Still wondering.... Mp
P.S> all this and probably more can be found by floating "project pronto" in a search engine. That's the name of this SBC DSL rollout.