Talk:Local loop

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Is the twisted pair actually a single piece of wire, or is there a junction at the point where the line from an individual house connects with the bundle of wires for the street? If there weren't a junction, it would seem the phone company would have to string a new wire from the central office directly to someone's home each time someone signed up for a new phone line. -- Beland 06:13, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Generally there are one or two twisted pairs leading from each household to a streetside cabinet, regardless of whether that household actually uses any of these twisted pairs. The streetside cabinet contains a distribution frame and is connected to the main distribution frame located at the central office by one or more cables containing hundreds of twisted pairs. Service is therefore provisioned by making the appropriate connections on both of these distribution frames. Only if there is a lack of capacity anywhere along this chain of cables and distribution frames does additional capacity have to be installed. JanCeuleers 14:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)