alex
At 04:31 PM 10/2/96 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, kadokev@ripco.com (Kevin Kadow) wrote:
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>> I understand _why_ Livingston has chosen not to implement BRI support
>> on the PM-3, unfortunately the tariffs in many areas make PRI prohibitively
>> expensive. In the Chicago area, from Ameritech or MFS it's 2-2.5x as much
>> as the equivalent number of BRIs.
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>In Seattle, USWest charges over 5x more for PRI than 12 BRI's (and you
>get the extra channel).
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>> Competition for local business dialtone should eventually drive the price
>> down. PRI service is technically simpler than multiple BRIs, the cost
>> to the local loop provider is about as low as you can go, the CPE does
>> all the hard work.
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>> Livingston should research whether anybody is or will develop a product
>> to aggregrate a number of BRIs and present them to a PM-3 (or Ascend,etc)
>> as a 'virtual PRI'. Yes, you can do this now with a micro 5ESS, but
>> that's expensive overkill.
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>> The actual hardware cost for such a beast would actually be pretty
>> minimal, perhaps with a street price of $2K or less.
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>I would be willing to pay as much as 2 months savings or $3500 per PRI
>generated in order to save $35000/mo and user the PM3! And $2k would be
>even better!
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>> E.g. it could accept 11 BRI circuits and present them as a 22 PRI
>> B channels, or turn 15 into an E1.
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>> I'd buy one.
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>I would buy 20! (and enjoy teaching USWorst the folly of 'premium
>pricing'; thats their excuse for why they charge more for a service that
>costs less.)
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>Paul M Mockett Jr
>Seanet Online Services
>701 Fifth Ave, Suite 6801
>Seattle, WA 98104
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Alex Henthorn Livingston Enterprises
Senior Technical Product Manager 6920 Koll Center Parkway #220
Product Marketing Engineer Pleasanton, CA 94566
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