Re: Portmaster Users Digest V96 #316 (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:59:47 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Matthew Ryan shaped the electrons to say...
>If I purchase the Dual-PRI PM3 with 24 digital modems, can I:
>(a) Use (1) PRI for 23 incoming lines, and use (1) PRI as the
> T1 connection to my Internet provider?

Well, there are two ports which can be PRI or T1. You could use one port
for PRI for dialin and the other as a T1 or fracT1 or channelized-T1 WAN
pipe to your provider.

Word is in 4-6 weeks channelized dialin with be out, if you don't want ISDN.

>(b) Use (1) PRI for 23 incoming lines, and then use the PM3 to
> auto-dial and connect to my net provider with 128k ISDN?

Sure, it has location tables like the rest of the products. You could
have a Continuous entry so that there is always a pipe up to the provider,
leave 21 dailin channels.

>If either (a) or (b) is possible, it would save me the trouble of
>having to purchase a Cisco or Ascend product at all. So if this

Note that the PM-2eR also has a WAN port and you can use that as the T1/etc
link to the provider and then use 5BRI cards for ISDN and/or external analog
modems for analog.

-MZ

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