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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: T1 lines & Modems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.135916.9183@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:59:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug28.135916.9183
- References: <1082392dlma@enigma1.COM>
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- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- schumway@enigma1.COM (J. Schumway) writes:
-
- >This may perhaps be a very beginner question, but.... can anyone
- >tell me about what exactly T1 lines are, and what it takes to connect
- >a modem & PC up to such a line? The only thing I know of T1's is that it
- >is a way to have multi-lines on one number, which would be a useful
- >thing. What requirements/equiptment is involved?
-
- A "normal phone line is analog. A T-1 is *digital*. You'd need several
- thousand dollars of equipment to split the T-1 into "normal" phone
- lines, and you'd be paying a small fortune for the T-1.
-
- When conerted to digital, a "normal" phone line is about 56 kbps.
- T.1 is 1.5 Mbps. That's roughly *25* phone lines. And you need
- interface gear that isn't cheap (in essence you need a digital PBX).
-
- If all you want is to be able to have multiple calls inbound on
- what appears to the caller to be the same number, talk to your phone
- company about "trunk hunting". There are several different names for
- this service (another name is "call forwarding on busy"). In any case,
- tell them that you want several phone lines, and you want them set up
- so that if someone calls the first number and it is busy, they get
- automatically passed on to the other numbers. They only get a busy
- signal if *none* of the lines are free.
-
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