Mark Carlson wrote: > On 10/26/05, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi All >> >>Interesting talk at CUUG last night on Asterisk and VOIP, one thing that >>was mentioned in the book he recommended, "VOIP, the future of Telephony," >>available here http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11 >>is T1 and E1 circuits, reccomended for big VOIP projects. >> >>This is something I have been curious about for a while, In Calgary, who can >>you get such a thing through? Is it only Telus? How much do they cost? > > > I'm not sure about T1s, but if you need serious bandwidth, you can get > it from ENMAX > > http://www.enmax.com/Envision/Our+Services/default.htm > > They offer: > - "Transparent LAN Service" > - "A point to point, dedicated, pure optical connection for large > enterprise and Carriers." in flavors of "OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and > Gigabit Ethernet." > - "Class of Service-enabled LAN for VoIP " > - "Dedicated Internet Access(DIA) over a fibre optic connection > provides the most through-put, speed, and versatility of internet > services today." at rates of 10 or 100Mbps "with a variety of usage > options - casual rates, packaged rates and burstable billing, measured > either in per Mbps increments at the 95th percentile or available in > total in/out monthly per GB rate. " > > As well as many other options. This is more than the average business > would need for VoIP, but if you have thousands of employees in many > different centers, it would be a different story. > I think that in this case, T1 isn't used as a Ethernet/IP/LAN interconnect, it's actually being used as a 26 voice channels line, as T1/E1 was designed to do in the begining.
Basically, using the T1 as a way to get 26 voice channels from a telco, which you can then turn into VoIP connections to either phones, or other PBXs within your organization. -- Paul Greidanus CAD Administrator / Systems Administrator Center of Excellence in Integrated Nanotools University of Alberta [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7368 http://www.cein.ualberta.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
