The interaction between various Ascend products and the telco facilities "connected" to them is likely a common confusing problem for many Ascend customers. When one has a problem, the usual sequence of events is to call either one's local telco or Ascend, and attempt to work the issue. Without fail, one ends up calling whichever party one did NOT call first, since there is a good chance that the party first called will ask a question that must be answered by the second. The savings to Ascend phone bills on their 800-number alone would be considerable. I would suggest that there are (in the US, at least) additional major application areas where similar "hints" could be of value, including: 1) PRIs 2) Frame Relay (64Kbps - T-1) 3) T-1s as point-to-point links 4) Telco-provided clocking 5) Power-up and reset sequence of events for each Ascend product, including the interaction with the telco facilities, and failure symptoms that would appear from a failure at any step in the process. As for T-1s, the thread sent to the list seems fairly complete, so I would at least send each contributor an Ascend t-shirt in "payment" for their contribution to Ascend's base of tech support information. Arm the homeless! james fischer jfischer@supercollider.com ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.shore.net/~dreaming/ascend-faq">http://www.shore.net/~dreaming/ascend-faq</A>> or <<A HREF="ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/dreaming/ascend-faq.txt">ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/dreaming/ascend-faq.txt</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg05958.html">Re: (ASCEND) Re: Did anyone get this shit?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg05957.html">(ASCEND) Re: Did anyone get this shit?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg05944.html">Re: (ASCEND) T1 provisoning hints</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg05927.html">(ASCEND) New Sys Option?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="mail118.html#05956"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd59.html#05956"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>