[Asterisk-Users] Lucent Phones

[Troy Settle]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Junker
> 
> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 11:28 -0400, Troy Settle wrote:
> > At this point, I'm using straight Asterisk, with a a PSTN 
> gateway at a data
> > POP passing calls via IAX to my PBX here in the office.  
> 
> Who is the PSTN gateway provider?
> 
> The only CLEC around here that is seriously considering any 
> sort of VoIP
> commercial service is Time Warner Telecom (TWTC), our current telecom
> provider, and I have no details on what they are considering. If
> VoicePulse had a reason to offer PSTN local exchange service in this
> area I'd drop TWTC like a bad habit...I'd then settle for the 
> Cincinnati
> Bell DSL or some other form of lower-cost business-class broadband for
> IP data access.

KMC Telecom is my CLEC.  I'm colocated with them at their central office.  I
have a DS3 for bringing PRI into my Lucent TNT.  The TNT can function as a
rudimentary switch and has the ability to generate T1/PRI that plug right
into my * box.  So, in essense, I'm my own PSTN gateway provider.

> 
> > 
> > FWIW, you should be able to completely eliminate the 
> Connectreach and bring
> > your T1 directly into *.  You just need to find out what 
> channels on the T1
> > are used for voice, and which are used for data.  Using a 
> T400 or TE405, you
> > can cross connect the data channels out to another T1 to go 
> into your
> > router.
> 
> TWTC has examined the T100P and informed me that it's 
> impossible, since
> their IBL uses proprietary formatting and signalling. Also, I ought to
> be able to use the data channels directly, according to 
> Digium, since my
> proposed Asterisk box is also our router.
> 
> If they are lying to me (which I doubt...they have a vested 
> interest in
> using a proprietary method), then as for finding out which 
> channels are
> used for what is as simple as trial-and-error and a cell 
> phone. ;) (and
> of course, the $400 or so to pick up a T100P to try it out...) I am
> guessing first four are voice and next 12 are data.

I'm rather confused by this.  It was my understanding that the connectreach
was nothing more than a glorified channel bank with IP routing capabilities
(I have 2 customers with 6 voice lines, and 384k of data that's handed off
as ethernet by the connectreach.  The voice lines come off a 50pin telco
connector.

If TWTC, like my CLEC, offers the connectreach at no additional cost, then I
seriously doubt that they would lie to you.  Returning the connectreach
would save them some small amount of money at the end of the day.  If their
solution is propriatary, that's fine, but I don't see how/why they wouldn't
be able to reprovision the T1 as a normal circuit.

If you can get Digium to give you a 30 day refund window, then I'd say that
it's well worth it to give this a try.

--
  Troy Settle
  Pulaski Networks
  http://www.psknet.com
  866.477.5638