[Asterisk-Users] Lucent Phones

[Gregory Junker]

I am confused as well. They also made it clear that the contract terms
included recouping the cost of the ConnectReach for them, so I doubt
that TWTC is offering it at no extra cost. My contention with that, of
course, is, "why not take my ConnectReach and give it to someone else...
you already have had 18 months of me paying for it".

As for the refund window, well, Mark's a nice guy, but I don't know if
he's _that_ nice. ;)

Greg

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 10:50 -0400, Troy Settle wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gregory Junker
> > 
> > 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.
> 
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