LOL - Thanks for not getting mad about my email. I just felt a little stung for being uneducated about T1s but we have to learn somewhere! I completely understand your concerns and will try to comply as best as I can. Again, thanks for being such a contributor to the this support system!!
To further explain my siutation, I should give you some more background on my setup. My current setup has an AdTran 616 on the wall breaking out my 6 analog lines and delivering my data to the office. I have two TDM400P cards receiving 6 analog lines which are used for both fax and voice. I have had numerous problems with this ISP and I just want to get away as soon as possible. Problem is, I have a contract that won't expire for a while so I need to use these lines for something. The ISP wants a contract extension and some setious cash to do the upgrade. Better to just seek alternate service. I originally bought my T100P thinking I would get digital lines and all the goodies involved. Then budget constraints and an ISP that wants too mcuh to convert me to Digital lead to a temporary solution. I would use the analog lines for a while longer. Well, that has run its course and I have to get to something more stable. The PRI card looks pretty good at this point. So getting back to the T1 PRI issue (and I am playing catch up here), my goal is to just deliver new service into this office over my T100P and just dump nothing but fax out those old lines. That way I can reserve the digitals for our truly important calls and still reap the benefit of having those old analog lines. I will have to google up ILEC and CLEC for more info b/c that is new to me as well. Thanks again, Wiley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Critchfield Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:36 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Digium T100P T1 Card On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 05:59 -0700, Wiley Siler wrote: > Apologies if the format of the email was troublesome. I am accessing > my email remotely via Outlook Web Access otherwise the format would > have been plain text. Thats good as this message was very easy to read. > Using my analog line for fax is not a matter of needs. It is a matter > of using available lines that we will have for another 18 months > because that T1 is under a long contract. The ISP company wants an > arm and a leg to upgrade the T1 from analog lines to digital so that > is why I am getting a separate voice T1 altogether. That will leave > these analog lines unused so I may as well dedicate them to my fax > system and keep all the digitals for our voice. So lets back up and look at another option here. Don't bother that ISP T1 at all. Look at your analog lines. Depending on the location you are at, 12 lines will be delivered via a T1 and broke out to analog lines via a channel bank of some sort. If so, then you are already a ways to getting closer to what you want. Either way, I wouldn't bother the ISP for voice. Your phone lines should come from a ILEC(former baby bell) or a CLEC(competes with ILEC). Your ISP will probably charge you so much more because they have to pay for the phone lines and then put the lines onto your data T1 with specialized equipment. Depending on where the other end of your T1 is, that can be fairly expensive for them. If your analog lines are delivered via a T1 interface and split with a channel bank, your phone company will probably love to upgrade your service. You will probably still want to pick up a channel bank, and if you already have the T100P, you will want to get a channelized T1 to take advantage of passing the T1 through the channel bank and coming back for the FXS ports. On a channelized T1 you will want to talk about getting an E&M wink lines and you can then have your DIDs. > Finally, let me say thank you. Your info is exactly what I needed and > I truly appreciate it. People who take time to help others should > truly be applauded. I have seen scores of replies from you to others > so I know you are one of the best contributors here. In fact, I > usually read yours first just because of the quality of your replies. > > However, was there that much need for the criticism and arrogance in > your reply? Wouldn't it just be esier not to reply at all than start > off with a complaint about my HTML formatting, go to a critique of how > I formatted my 4 sentence email (paragraph for 4 sentences?), and > finish up by pointing out that I don't know much about voice T1s? No it isn't better to not reply. The complaint about HTML formatting is important. Too many people don't understand what their formatting means to other peoples readers. Maybe I am a bit sensitive about it as one of our main clients has almost exclusively older ladies working for them that have eye problems on track for the age. This has caused me to be very aware of color choices and font sizes, or specifically choosing relative sizes instead of hard choices. Consider that to be less of a complaint about you specifically and more about the list in general. I placed in a response to you as it was convenient and a fair portion of the list would see it. There are too many people who compound the problem when there are several in a thread with all kinds of alternating font sizes. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven > Critchfield > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 1:28 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium T100P T1 Card > > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 01:01 -0700, Wiley Siler wrote: > If you want some analog FXS ports, you could also go the route of an > ADIT 600 and plug the T1 into the ADIT and route your incoming 12 > channels to the second port of the ADIT and then plug it into the T100P. > The benefit here is you will have 12 channels left over to signal back > from the T100P to the ADIT and have those channels routed to FXS ports. > I used to do something similar to that with a Zhone channel bank > before our company fully trusted asterisk. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users