> Also before you buy a TA you should call around to the various
> providers here and find out what equipment they are using. You wont be
> able to bond channels together unless you have matching hardware (in most
> cases). You probably want to go with anyone using ascend max's, ive never
> heard good things about cisco although Im sure to get contradicted on
> this. Ive noticed too when dealing with ISP's that they generally dont
> have many techs who can help you with ISDN setup. You might want to ask
> who will be available for such a thing and what their experience is.
Well ... I have never run into an ISP that could not support 128K ISDN
lines. This is just accomplished by the two 64k channels being bound
together ... every vendor I have worked with (bay, cisco, ascend,
livingston) is compatable with 128K ... I believe it is in some sort of
ISDN protocal standard (I'm guessing on that one .. not sure if it's a
standard).
And yes, normally the techs are pretty clueless when it comes to ISDN. If
you ask for the next tier when you call, you'll probably get better
service.
As far as equipment goes on the ISP side .. pretty much any name brand
stuff will get good performance .. I would be more worried about their
line load and upstream connection than I would their terminal server.
Aaron
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