RE: (ASCEND) BRI solutions?

[Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Troy Settle wrote:

> 
> If you're talking about setting up something like an ISDN Centrex
> connection, you can do this, but it'll be tricky getting the order through
> the telco, and probably way to expensive.
> 
> The long and short of it is that you order a PRI on a centrex.  Then, order
> a BRI on behalf of your customer on the same Centrex group that your PRI is
> on.  Once installed, your customer should be able to maintain a 24/7
> connection at a fairly reasonable line cost (in VA, it's ~$45/month/centrex
> loop).
> 
> Your better solution for a single customer in this situation, would be to
> start with a P50, then work up to a Max 1804 (I think this is the 4 BRI
> solution), then an 1800 as the # of customers with this service grows.
> 
> Currently, we're servicing 10 128k and 1 256k dedicated ISDN customers in
> this fashion, and it works beautifully well.  We've explored the PRI Centrex
> option, but found it to be a little too expensive at this time.

Another reason to go against using the centrex PRI: you will then have to
become the single point of billing for the customer. You will be
responsible for any charges that show up on the customer's centrex BRI,
such as long distance charges etc. Can really suck if a customer jumps
ship. 

I would strongly suggest sticking with individual BRI+BRI centrex
connections for dedicated ISDN. Plus, it's easier to pass all of the
charges back to the customer this way. He is the billing contact for both
the BRI at your location and his. You just billing him for service.

As far as equipment, I would definitly use the max 1800. We've tried them
all, PM2e's, cisco's 8 BRI card for the 3600s, individual netopia routers,
they all suck compared to the 1800. Radius, easy to configure, STAC,
stable, the only thing that can suck is price.

Andy

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