[Asterisk-biz] asterisk with combined T1?

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Michael Welter wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>I know other vendors (like CBeyond) do a bandwidth sharing thing,
>>>>where all available T-1 channels are dedicated to data.  When a voice
>>>>call arrives, 64Kbps is borrowed from the data stream for the duration
>>>>of the voice call. I think it's Cisco equipment but not sure...
>>>
>>Do you know what equipment is on the other end?  If I were to order a
>>circuit from an ILEC, what would I tell them I need?  Or, which ILECs
>>offer this as a product?

There are three ways you can do this.

1) Get the *LEC to split out voice and data at your location.  This is 
how I do it.  The *LEC hands me off a DSX-1 (T-1) for the PRI channels, 
and an ethernet port for IP service.

2) The *LEC hands you off a DSX-1 with both voice and data on it.  You 
use Zap and the Linux HDLC module to use the data portion.

3) The *LEC hands you off a DSX-1 with both voice on it.  You use ZapRAS 
to dial into an ISDN ISP and use multilink PPP to bond the channels into 
a larger pipe.