"Jon Pounder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I live in New Brunswick Canada. The phone company is Aliant. When >> you set up business service here, you can go with either analog or >> digital lines. This isn't a T1 or ISDN. They are talking individual >> lines direct to handsets that they provide. They offer the digital >> option with even very small ( 2 - 4) number of lines. > >I am guessing DSL to a hybrid box like one of the ones from ZHONE that >split off several pots lines or isdn lines, and a high speed serial line >(normally configured as frame relay for whatever bandwidth is left over) > >This "box" could be at your demarc much like you would have your T1 >"modem" (T1 is actually delivered over HDSL on a single pair, and then the >modem box splits it out onto the the familiar tx and rx pairs) > >In this case the handsets could be either analog or isdn depending what >"flavour" box they provide. > >They could also be just giving you an adsl circuit, and a dumb modem/hub, >and providing unique ips to IP phones that you happen to plug in, but >there would not be any network connection to the internet, just to their >voip headend at the CO.
I think this technology pre-dates DSL and maybe even ISDN. It is also deployed in large organizations with hundreds of phones. I think they use this for Centrex. It seems to use RJ-11 connectors and flat wires, if this means anything to anyone. I believe the phones are Nortel. Doug -- Doug Meredith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SystemGuard - Oracle remote support 877-974-8273 (87-SYSGUARD) 506-854-7997 www.systemguard.com _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
