>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?
Some remotes cannot support ISDN line cards. Thus they can't offer
ISDN services from those remotes. PacBell may not want to forklift