> On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Stephen Balbach wrote: > > |On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Elvis Presley wrote: > | > |> One thing, do you want to lay all your dial in traffic on a DS3? Suppose > |> that DS3 goes down. Out goes...er...672 dial in lines. Suppose the TNT > |> goes down? Same thing. > | > |All PRI's are mux'd into a DS3 as soon as they hit the CO. > |Your allready using a DS3 now. PRI's are much less reliable, cards fail, > |copper fails. DS3's reliability is much higher the DS1's. By going with a > |DS3 handoff you elimiate an extra de-mux/mux step and the equipment point > |of failures it contains. > > This is absolute BS. Of the main top3 Class 5 Switches (Lucent 5ESS, > Nortel DMS100/500, Siemens) none of them have working STS-1 (DS3) > interfaces yet. Every RBOC/CLEC is using T1s for intraoffice trunks > and for PRIs to end users. Odd. Our universal SLC is OC-3 and it's intraoffice. I don't know the specifics on the switch but I find it hard to imagine Bell Atlantics largest interoffice backbone is DS1. I could believe the interface to the switch is DS1, but dont believe they haul from the switch to our location on DS1. Stb ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq">http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <STRONG>Follow-Ups</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg11908.html">Re: (ASCEND) TNT 672 modems, DS3 Channelized</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Jonah Yokubaitis <barron@texas.net></LI> </UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg11888.html">Re: (ASCEND) TNT 672 modems, DS3 Channelized</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg11862.html">Re: (ASCEND) TNT 672 modems, DS3 Channelized</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Jonah Yokubaitis <barron@texas.net></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11867.html">Re: (ASCEND) Pipline 130 FR--> Cisco 2501</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11865.html">Re: (ASCEND) Ascend, Radius and RFC2138</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11862.html">Re: (ASCEND) TNT 672 modems, DS3 Channelized</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11888.html">Re: (ASCEND) TNT 672 modems, DS3 Channelized</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="mail2.html#11866"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd282.html#11866"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>