Terminating many T1's

Wed Jul 23 15:50:24 UTC 1997

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.

Not quite true.  We have two CT3's on order from USWest (not !nterprize) 
for plain-ol' T1 aggragation...this in the WA/OR area.

TE