You don't need to work for a telco to read OSP Magazine: http://www.ospmag.com/
For anyone who has no idea what "OSP" is, in telephone company lingo, all the wires in the ground and on poles and all that, and the outdoor electronics, is called the Outside Plant.
What is known as the central office (CO), the big gray windowless building in town with the phone company logo on the door, that is the Inside Plant.
It used to be the outside plant was very simple, just wires mostly, splice boxes, and loading coils. The inside plant had all the complex mechanical switching and selectors, operator switchboards, etc.
From what I can determine, there's not too much distinction anymore between them. DSLAMs must be very close to the subscribers, and outdoor hardware for fiber allows data concentration so less fiber needs to run back to the CO. So you can now find pretty much the same hardware in the CO as in the remote electronics pedestals out in the field.
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You wanna see telco plant managers talking to other plant managers about outdoor wiring methods and technologies? OSPMag is the place to go.
The Achilles Heel of The First Mile
http://www.ospmag.com/issue/article/The-Achilles-Heel-of-The-First-Mile
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Keeping the outside plant running smoothly...
IoT Needs OSP
http://www.ospmag.com/issue/article/IoT-Needs-OSP
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CenturyLink remote pedestal: RUBY, 10 miles west of Gilman, WI
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20533172-Rural-Century-Telephone-remote-terminal-unit
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20530745-Name-of-this-polemount-outdoor-telco-canister
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