home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.miami.edu!ncar!destroyer!gumby!yale!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:37:21 GMT
- From: petrilli@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: "Advaced Switching" at SWBT
- Message-ID: <telecom13.46.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Department of Redundency Department
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 46, Message 6 of 12
- Lines: 31
-
- As part of a project I'm working on, I needed to get some cost
- estimates from SWBT (South Swestern Bell Telephone) on what it would
- cost to run digital lines within the City of Austin. When I finally
- got a hold of the business office that handled the services I needed
- and told the lady what I needed I was shocked at the fact that:
-
- 1) She had no clue what T3/DS3 service was, and said that SWBT
- didn't provide it and she had no way of pricing it. She later
- recended the comment when she talked to a "technical support
- representative".
-
- 2) Told me that I was "very lucky" that I was in the 83X
- exchange because, and I quote: "We've just installed the most advanced
- switch around." When I asked if she was refering to a NorthernTelecom
- DMS series, or perhaps the 5ESS series, she said "Um ... no, we're
- using a ESS1A".
-
- I don't know about everyone else, but while the 1A is a nice switch
- and all, it doesn't quite qualified for "most advanced switch" even
- with 100 adjuct boxes on it.
-
- I was also SHOCKED at the cost of running a T1 line from the 83X
- exchange (North Austin) to the AT&T POP (downtown) which is roughly 15
- miles. The cost was MORE than the cost from AT&T for a T1 line from
- their Austin POP to Dallas. Somehow I don't think this is reasonable.
-
-
- Chris Petrilli petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- I don't even speak for myself.
-
-