Office Router (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 14:24:14 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Dolnik, Bryan shaped the electrons to say...
>If we purchase the ISDN office router for a small office environment, =
>where the ISDN connection is on demand, is it possible to use one of the =
>channels for a voice line? I understand that a regular phone can use an =
>ISDN line with a TA in-between. Would the OR do this?

No. The OR is not designed as an NT-1 for use with other devices.

>Small office now has two regular phone lines, one for voice and one for =
>data. Wants to drop those lines and install ISDN service. Then hook-up a =
>Livingston OR for an on-demand connection to the Internet for all PC's =
>on the network using one channel. Use the other channel for voice =
>telephone system. Also... (gets complicated :) ) could you configure the =
>OR to bond both channels in the event the second channel was not being =
>used for voice at that particular time?
>
>Will this work? Any other equip required to make voice phones work?

No, it will not work. You would need an external NT-1 to turn the
local ISDN net into an S/T network which you could hang ISDN devices on.
Then you would need an S/T interfacre OR (OR-S/T) to connect to this.
The OR-U has a built in NT-1 so the ISDN line goes directly into it, you
can't connect other devices upstream of the OR and it does not break out
the line for other devices.

-MZ

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