Re: digital cable telephony

["tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, that is exactly what I at least am referring to. The local cable
company is making huge inroads into the telephone companies customer
base by offering telephone service over the cable network (serves 'em
right; their service is crap).. They bring dial tone from another type
of modem directly to the existing inside wiring for the telephone
system. So all the installer has to do is hook up normally for line
exclusion and everything works well for outgoing....not so for incoming
however. I think it has to do with how the panel "listens" for ring
tones on the line....the cable company may not be doing it the same
way)

However, we still have a lot of the same issues to deal with as with
VoIP. (I make the client sign a waver form as much to alert him to the
downsides of this way of communicating as anything else). The only
difference is cable is a lot more reliable than the internet.

Crash Gordon wrote:
> What?
> Are you guys talking about telephone service with your cable tv service?
>
>
> <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1156511475.509308.54580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Yes, it works fine. You can still wire it for proper line exclusion;
> | however, I have not found a case yet where you can dial in to the
> | panel. For some reason, panels don't see an incoming ring in the same
> | way they do on a Bell line, and subsequently, won't answer the phone.
> | Haven't tried asking the customer to force the panel to answer an
> | incoming ring; that might still work..
> |
> | All the usual cautions about power failure, using a UPS etc apply here,
> | since in some ways, this is not too much different than VoIP (albeit
> | somewhat more reliable it seems)
> |
> | Don wrote:
> | > anyone have any experience using the digital cable telephone service
> with an
> | > alarm system?  Is the alarm able to report to centrals tation ok?  NIck
> said
> | > he can program systems over the digital cable network so I assume an
> alarm
> | > would work on it.  Any real life experience out there before I take the
> | > plunge?
> |