Bruce,

Are you hearing noise or crackling? If you hear crackling, this is probably a 
timing problem. Make sure you setup your server to use your Bell T1 for timing 
source.

Stephan Monette
Unlimitel Inc.
Tel.: (877) 464-6638
Fax: (613) 482-1077

On 2011-02-18, at 8:27 AM, James Knott wrote:

> Bruce N wrote:
>> Issue with a Bell PRI left me with few bad channels that I thought is never 
>> possible with a digital link like PRI.
> 
> What's at the other end of the PRI?
> 
> The only things those alarm lights check are framing and bipolar errors.  
> They do not perform any data integrity checks.  That's the responsibility of 
> the end devices.  You can run Bit Error Rate Tests (BERT) to verify the line 
> is good.  However, as you mentioned, line problems should cause random noise. 
>  Noise on a specific channel would indicate it's coming from the other end.  
> Also, with a PRI, it's entirely possible that the various channels may be 
> connected to different end points.  Regardless, the switching equipment 
> should be transparent and not introduce any noise.
> 
> 
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