NFAS

William Behrens (wbehrens@feist.com)
Wed, 28 May 1997 11:56:21 -0500

I really need some answers. We have a real situation with our telco
(Southwestern Bell). We have agreed to purchase 18 PM3's to replace our
Ascend boxes (4004's). They are all PRI models with 4x10 and 1x8 modem
cards. I need to have NFAS on these boxes to allow us to provision our
units with our telco (5ESS switch won't handle the number of d channels
required to run with out NFAS). We started this purchase over a month ago
with the promise of NFAS to be released by May. Scuttle butt now has NFAS
being released in July. Is there any truth to this ? If so I am in serious
trouble and will need to look for another NAS vendor (BLAH, I really like
the Livingston products allot !). I know this is a little off topic but
could I get an answer from Marty L. or MZ on this issue. Any suggestions
from this group on NAS's that support NFAS (doesn't have to be
multichassis) besides Ascend would be helpful. You can reply me by direct
email to keep the list group uncluttered. Thanks in advance.

William Behrens, Director of Network Operations
Feist Systems / www.feist.com
Email : wbehrens@feist.com