Re: Inter-CO signaling?

["John M. Brown" <jmbrown () ihighway net>]

US West is also doing this now.  Welcome to TelCo HELL.

jmbrown () ihighway net


At 10:32 PM 9/10/98 +0000, you wrote:
> > From: James Carlson <carlson () ironbridgenetworks com>
> >      - If they're using channel banks between you and the
> >        customer's switch (like if they dropped you cheap T1s by
> >        putting them line-side on your switch, rather than trunk-
> >        side), then you lose.  24Kbps will be about the maximum.
> Yes, BellSouth did something like that to us at our main dial-in bank
> over last weekend.  They've been running out of dialtone on the switch,
> since we have so many lines (much more than they ever expected in a
> rural area).
>
> Now, they claim that they only promise that we will receive 9.6Kbps per
> line!  We've been told this by several persons.  We are getting
> 28.8Kbps.
>
> This problem has taken a lot of my time all week.
>
>
> >       - Some misconfigurations will merely cause lots of errors and
> >         poor performance rather than abject failure.  Check AMI
> >        versus B8ZS (look for coding violations), and check for
> >        clocking problems (extremely frequent slips noted by FDL).
> We had that problem on T1s, until we switched to PRIs.  More expensive
> per line, but at least they work better.  ILEC equipment is in a
> terrible state.
>
> WSimpson () UMich edu
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