Columbia Pike - ARTNVACK Updated: 08:57PM EST 12/27/2005 Operating Company: Verizon Virginia, Inc. / AT&T Corp. Former Operating Company(s): Bell Atlantic - Virginia, Inc. / AT&T Corp. C&P Telephone Co. of Va Operating Company Number: 9213 Office Name: Columbia Pike / Arlington 2 Location: 900 S. Walter Reed Dr. Arlington Co., VA Colocated Carrier(s): AT&T Corp. AT&T Local (7421) AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. (6010) E.Spire MCI

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What more can be said? Arlington 2, in AT&T parlance, is/was a major cable termination point at one time supporting a fiber optic cable to the Dranesville bunker as well as not one but two fiber optic routes to Richmond 2. The Dranesville route was original a coaxial run but has been upgraded to utilize modern fiber optics. The repeater huts for that route are still in some form of service. In addition it is thought that Arlington 2 once supported special circuits to the Pentagon but these may have been turned down in the 70s. T20 was once an AUTOVON switch. It is unknown what T30 was. 03T, T20 and T20 are thought to be out of service and are listed for historical refrence.

Arlington 2 is currently a long distance 4ESS switch and access POP site. Additionally, the office is most likely an MTSO for AT&T Wireless.

Roofline microwave horns once connected Arlington 2 to an AT&T microwave site called Garden City which served as a microwave hub and gateway into Washington, D.C. Garden City has since been dehorned and sold.