[11238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Terminating many T1's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Bergum)
Wed Jul 23 13:54:36 1997
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:30:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dave Bergum <bergum@MR.Net>
To: Tom Eastgard <eastgard@nwnet.net>
Cc: David Mercer <dmercer@world.std.com>,
"Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net>,
Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970723084747.3616R-100000@cypress.nwnet.net>
>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:50:24 -0700 (PDT), Tom Eastgard <eastgard@nwnet.net> said:
Tom> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, David Mercer wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI wrote:
>> > On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Stephen Balbach wrote:
>>
>> > > 4. Chanellized DS3. Don't know anything about it - can MFS provide circuits
>> > > this way via a DS3 handoff? No CSU/DSU required? Any other costs/issues?
>> > Channelized DS3 stuff only seems to be useful for putting mulitple
>> > customers on a single physical circuit. You need to be able to break it
>> > out to the DS1 level for each customer. Perhaps MFS, PacBell, etc can do
>> > this? It's probably just a matter of them defining that "product".
>> > (I.E. Feed MFS a DS3 and they give a T1 to each of your customers.)
>>
>> US West !nterprise sells such a service, only for frame relay connections.
Tom> Not quite true. We have two CT3's on order from USWest (not !nterprize)
Tom> for plain-ol' T1 aggragation...this in the WA/OR area.
And, if you get this service over a SHNS (Self Healing Network Service)
ring that you can also get from USWest, you have extremely reliable links.
Dave.
