I have an Ackermann ISDN PABX (Euracom 262) in my home lab with which I
am delighted. It has 3 internal S busses, 6 POTS ports and 1 external
(public network facing) S bus. The list price new in the UK is about
#750, less if you reduce the number of internal S busses that you wish
to use. I hope that when I have passed the IE lab the resale value will
be reasonable so the net cost will not be very much and certainly
significantly less than the cost of an ISDN2 line from the local Telco.
You can connect your routers to the internal S busses. It works very
well with 2503, 2504 and WIC-1B ST and will allow all the dial options
including multilink. The drawback is the UK version only supports ISDN
SWITCH-TYPE BASIC-NET3. So no chance to practice your SPIDS. There is
also a German version available, I am not sure if they make a U bus
version for the US but it's fine for the rest of the world!
They are designed for small branch office use in Germany where ISDN is
very common. There are several other manufacturers of similar products.
Further details from:
http://www.ackermann.co.uk
I hope this saves you some money!
Peter
In article , Dan Faulk
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>One way to save a good sum of money is to have the telco pull you a
>2B1D(Bri) ISDN line and use one B channel per router. Does everthing except
>multilink (and that can be done with a willing partner) and costs a lot less
>than a simulator (most Ive seen run $1500-2500 compared to about $300 in
>telco charges). Might want to do this towards the end to keep costs down and
>cancel the service when finished. Anybody know a different way would be
>great to hear it.
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