"trade off risks to your T1 getting knocked out by a backhoe" Well luckily no backhoe but I did keep, at my own expense, Westell DS1 NIU's around because I had

"trade off risks to your T1 getting knocked out by a backhoe" Well luckily no backhoe but I did keep, at my own expense, Westell DS1 NIU's around because I had a situation where one went bad and it took the Verizon tech time to go and find one. So I bought a few so he would have the parts around. I also made sure when they strung the fiber from the connection point to our office (several hundred feet through other offices in the ceiling) that it was in orange conduit as opposed to just strung through the building (they were just going to run it like phone wire). I also had them bring an extra fiber through, as well as a fishing wire in case it was ever needed for anything in the future.