Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Should Projects be Connected to the Phone Line? Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 06:15:10 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: Cal State Long Beach Lines: 13 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 124, Message 3 of 8 This may be a dumb question but ... Is there any device that one could insert in place of or on the customer side of the Network Interface that would serve the functions for protecting the phone company equipment and employees from any real or imagined damage from faulty project design or construction ? Would such device prevent the CO from detecting the attached equip- ment and would it meet the FCC regulatory requirements ? Jeff Sicherman