>Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:40:59 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Douglas L McKean <[email protected]>

>And I've had quite a few lively discussions as to the
>difference between T1 and DS1.  T1 is simply circuit
>constructed to respond optimally to a DS-1 signal.

Actually, I have been told (by some GTE "old timers" <g>) that T1 is a
proprietary Western Electric term.  They didn't exercise a whole lot of
imagination, they simply used the next letter of the alphabet when they
built a new system.  (So that's why we have M-carrier systems in the Bell
System <g>).  DS1 is the "generic" term (Digital Service 1).


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