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- From: picone@trdc000.trdc.ti.com (Joe Picone)
- Subject: Re: end-to-end digital connections on ISDN
- In-Reply-To: deej@cbnewsf.cb.att.com's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:33:55 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:52:50 GMT
-
- > I don't doubt that they can guarantee that the connection is fully digital
- > from your lab, to the serving MCI switch, through the MCI network, to the
- > far-end MCI switch, and even as far as the facilities from the far-end MCI
- > switch to the LEC Point of Termination/Point of Interface. However, it is
- > physically impossible for an IXC to guarantee *anything* with regard to
- > whether connections beyond the POI are digital or analog or how many D/A-A/D
- > conversions a signal will go through.
- >
- > For instance, the IXC may be able to guarantee that all access facilities
- > (from the LEC network to the IXC network) are digital. However, they can
- > not guarantee that all Access Tandems are digital. The connection could go
- > from an MCI DMS-250 (digital) over digital facilities to a 1AESS(tm) switch
- > AT (analog SPC) (1 D/A-A/D), then over analog facilities to a DMS-100 EO
- > (digital) (another D/A-A/D) serving an analog loop (a third D/A-A/D).
- > Unless MCI is claiming that they have direct access trunks to all digital
- > EOs in North America, their claim rests on LEC network topology, which is
- > outside their control. And I feel certain that somewhere in North America
- > there is at least one digital EO with trunks to an analog SPC AT with
- > connections to MCI...
-
- Sorry, I forgot to add an important detail. We supply the callers with
- a toll-free 800 number which, I assume, connects them directly to our
- carrier (MCI) at the local office (equal access, right?).
-
- So, in this case, doesn't this guarantee end-to-end digital if all of
- the carrier's access facilities are digital?
-
- How would ISDN compare (still the same as T1)?
-
- Or is it still possible that in reaching an MCI toll-free number from some
- areas, you may go through some tandem encodings?
-
- -Joe
-