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- From: deej@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (david.g.lewis)
- Subject: Re: PacBell ISDN?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.152219.10399@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T
- References: <BxLAp0.8yr@fc.hp.com> <1992Nov12.144021.17633@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1e9lnpINNboe@roche.csl.sri.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:22:19 GMT
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- In article <1e9lnpINNboe@roche.csl.sri.com> kph@cisco.com (Kevin Paul Herbert) writes:
- >I am served by an ISDN-capable 5E switch, but am served remotely (I live in
- >the mountains and a 5E switch serves the entire valley that I live in).
- >PacBell offers ISDN for the wire center in which the switch is physically
- >located, but not in any of the remote wire centers.
- >
- >My account executive speculates that this may be because they'd have to
- >devote an entire channel bank to ISDN lines, and they wouldn't want to devote
- >this much of their bandwidth unless I got 8 BRI lines. All I want is 2...
- >
- >Does anybody know if this is the correct reason, or if there really is a
- >technical reason that they can't put ISLUs in the remote wire center?
-
- No technical reason, but the same economic reason (except more so).
- (Disclaimer: I don't do 5ESS switch stuff at AT&T; the following is
- information I gained trying to figure out ways to do remote ISDN off 5Es at
- Teleport Communications. I may be missing things.)
-
- Remoting ISDN via SLCs/D4s gets you 8 BRIs per DS1. The more BRIs you
- serve, the more economical it is. At TCG, I could justify 8 BRIs and 48
- POTS lines off a SLC-5, but nothing less (two years ago, anyway). 2 BRIs
- didn't cut it.
-
- If you're currently served by a remote 5ESS Switch Module (SM) (usually
- called an RSM, Remote Switch Module, or ORM, Optical Remote Module), that SM
- can be upgraded to support ISDN. However, economics again enters the
- picture; if the SM serves 3000 lines, and the need is for two BRIs, it's
- hard to cost-justify.
-
- It's also possible to colocate an ISDN Line Unit (ISLU), "homed" to an ISDN
- SM in the home CO, with the existing ORM. Again, though, deploying a RISLU
- that is capable of 640 BRIs, to serve two BRIs, is tough to cost-justify.
-
- If the remote office is just channel banks or SLCs, the same constraints
- apply.
-
- David G Lewis AT&T Bell Laboratories
- david.g.lewis@att.com or !att!goofy!deej Switching & ISDN Implementation
-