[asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:20:27PM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
> Not only that, but Jay's suggestion is going to give you the performance 
> monitoring data off the smartjack itself, not off of any portion of the 
> span beyond the smartjack.
> 
> So, if you are receiving errors on the part that runs to the CSU/DSU, 
> or, if you have an outboard CSU/DSU, also the DTE portion beyond it, 
> well, you won't see those.
> 
> You might get lucky and see errors in transmission (arrival at the 
> smartjack from the customer data side) since many error-causing 
> phenomena tend to apply symmetrically, but maybe not.

This is an excellent point that I did indeed overlook.  Our demarcs are
extended, and I might myself get bitten by this.  Guess I'm gonna go
hit eBay.  :-)

These things are smart CSU's, right?

Cheers,
-- jra
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