Re: digital cable telephony

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's just another form of VOIP, it may work then again it may not

"tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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
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> > | 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?
> > |
>