Re: (ASCEND) shared D-Channels on PRI

[Phillip Vandry <vandry@mlink.net>]

> >BS.
> 
> I didn't want to go so far, but ... ;)

Hey, I didn't spell it out :-)

> >(I wonder if it is Lucent who told you this? - They don't support NFAS)
> 
> Actually they do since 3.8 ComOS, and they *claim* to have multi-chassis
> NFAS too - either in 3.8 or in BETA....

It's very new then. I ran a recent 3.8 beta and it didn't have it. I
guess they've had time to release 3.8 since then.

> When I worked for AT&T (now Lucent) we did some testing with SS7 trunks
> where we had the equivalent of NFAS (I think it was still called NFAS
> actually - it's been about 10 years :) and did quite some testing of
> a single 64K D-channel 'supporting' tens of spans (I think our test LAB
> maxed out at 16 E-1s : E1 has 30 channels to play with!).

My understanding is that the SS7 network is a packet based network
seperate from the TDM trunks. (so you can size it as required for the
signalling traffic).

-Phil
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• Re: (ASCEND) shared D-Channels on PRI
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