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From: Sydney Weinstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 3:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: T1 Help - Slightly Off Topic
Please summarize to the group..
Depending on how they need to connect the T-1 to your phone
system you may not need a channel bank, and channel banks are expensive.
We do the same thing using a Drop/Add CSU/DSU. It has a V.35 connection
on the back for the router and a DSX-1 connection for the phone system.
We peel off several channels for voice and send the rest to the router.
The router will need a V.35 type interface and the Drop/Add csu/dsu will
connect to that. Any router with a high speed serial link will do. And
if you are only going to peel off 128k for data, then even an RS-232 speed
link will work, although V.35 is preferred.
Almost any router will work. Cisco's will do compression on the 128K link
and get a nice speed boost, but there are others that will also do that.
The choice of router is more based on the services you need to do across
the WAN.
On Thu Jun 29 17:20:09 2000, Malt, Rob wrote,
>
> Currently I have a LAN with around 20 users connected to the 'net via a
> dual-homed Windows NT server running MS Proxy 2. The external NIC is
> connected to an ISDN router. That router is using NAT and has basic
packet
> filtering. We are looking at getting a T1 and using two channels (128k)
for
> data and the rest for voice. I've been told by the MCI guys that we will
> need a channel bank, and whatever router we get will be connected to that.
> Question one: What type of WAN interface card will the router need to
talk
> to the channel bank? Just a 'T1' card? Also, can someone recommend a
good
> router/firewall? I'd like to spend less than $2000 on the router. So far
> I've been looking at Cisco and Nortel Networks' products, but I know there
> are other nice products out there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rob
>
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