[Asterisk-Users] OT: "Integrated Access T1" voice problems - is this possible?

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Mark Farver wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:26 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> 
>>	We are getting pricing and one provider is telling us that they have 
>>quality issues with the "Integrated Access" product.  From what they say 
>>it sounds like you can have audio dropouts on the voice channels when 
>>the data channels are being pushed to the max.  I have never heard of 
>>this.  It doesn't seem possible to me, and if at all, probably more of a 
>>limitation in the CSU/DSU than in the actual T.  Isn't that what TDM is 
>>all about - giving each channel it's afforded bandwidth?
>>

> The other method is to provision some of the 24 T1 channels as data,
> some as voice.  This is not very dynamic and typically you can only have
> one voice call per T1 channel.  So if your maximum number of active
> calls is 12, only half the T1 can be used for data... idle voice
> channels are wasted.

Mark,

	This is what we are doing - that is the only way they will do it for 
us.  We are going to be 11 voice and the rest data - statically.  With 
this scenario is it likely (or possible) that data traffic could impede 
on the voice channels, thus causing audio problems on them?

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Kristian Kielhofner