Catonic wrote:
Now that's a tower. It has been upgraded to eight legs (instead of four) which makes it a confusing lattice of steel at the base.

Not only do I want to know what AT&T does with it, but I want it... :D

dc0de wrote:

Catonic wrote:
Now that's a tower. It has been upgraded to eight legs (instead of four) which makes it a confusing lattice of steel at the base.

Not only do I want to know what AT&T does with it, but I want it... :D

HAHA!

These are usually used for long distance back haul between main & toll central offices. Main & toll CO's are usually the central hubs in a community where all other CO's tie to for LD connections and interconnections with other carriers. These will typically be equipped with microwave transceivers for wireless backhaul to another M&T CO. They are not always used as primary connectivity, but for backup usually. Although I have seen M&T CO's that only had microwave for primary (ie, no fiber). If you are ever on 2nd Avenue in Nashville, you'll see the Nashville M&T CO right next to Sbarro Pizza. Look up, and you'll see a bunch of microwave antenna. I sometimes think that's how they cook the pizza.

Catonic wrote:
Now that's a tower. It has been upgraded to eight legs (instead of four) which makes it a confusing lattice of steel at the base.

It's interesting that ATT security requested that the location be removed. Central offices are obviously a key infrastructure piece, but their locations have never been actively obscured. They are often located in very prominent places with prominent signage. There used to be online databases that if you keyed in the CLLI, you could get the detailed stats of what that office contained (type of switch, interconnects, types of feeds, etc), but I just googled for them and I couldn't find one. Which kinda sucks because I have fond memories of dumpster diving them in high school.

flynn23 wrote:

Catonic wrote:
Now that's a tower. It has been upgraded to eight legs (instead of four) which makes it a confusing lattice of steel at the base.

It's interesting that ATT security requested that the location be removed. Central offices are obviously a key infrastructure piece, but their locations have never been actively obscured. They are often located in very prominent places with prominent signage. There used to be online databases that if you keyed in the CLLI, you could get the detailed stats of what that office contained (type of switch, interconnects, types of feeds, etc), but I just googled for them and I couldn't find one. Which kinda sucks because I have fond memories of dumpster diving them in high school.

*cough*LERG*cough*

Catonic wrote:

flynn23 wrote:

Catonic wrote:
Now that's a tower. It has been upgraded to eight legs (instead of four) which makes it a confusing lattice of steel at the base.

It's interesting that ATT security requested that the location be removed. Central offices are obviously a key infrastructure piece, but their locations have never been actively obscured. They are often located in very prominent places with prominent signage. There used to be online databases that if you keyed in the CLLI, you could get the detailed stats of what that office contained (type of switch, interconnects, types of feeds, etc), but I just googled for them and I couldn't find one. Which kinda sucks because I have fond memories of dumpster diving them in high school.

*cough*LERG*cough*

I have some friends that do commercial tower climbing and they said the microwave back haul system is a approaching a slow death due to the net and fiber optic cables...

unmanaged wrote:

Catonic wrote:

flynn23 wrote:

Catonic wrote:
Now that's a tower. It has been upgraded to eight legs (instead of four) which makes it a confusing lattice of steel at the base.

It's interesting that ATT security requested that the location be removed. Central offices are obviously a key infrastructure piece, but their locations have never been actively obscured. They are often located in very prominent places with prominent signage. There used to be online databases that if you keyed in the CLLI, you could get the detailed stats of what that office contained (type of switch, interconnects, types of feeds, etc), but I just googled for them and I couldn't find one. Which kinda sucks because I have fond memories of dumpster diving them in high school.

*cough*LERG*cough*

I have some friends that do commercial tower climbing and they said the microwave back haul system is a approaching a slow death due to the net and fiber optic cables...

The Culleoka tower was formerly part of the AT&T long distance microwave system. With the advent of fiber-optics, the microwave towers became ineffecient. AT&T has now sold most of the towers to private companies.