From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 18:39: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F44C37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 18:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f4A2p8X58158; Wed, 9 May 2001 21:51:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 21:51:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Rick Duvall Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: T1 vs PRI In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 May 2001, Rick Duvall wrote: > What is the difference between T1 and PRI other than the obvious: > > T1 has 24 channels, PRI has 23 A CT-1 (Channelized T-1) has 24 56K channels, whereas PRI's have 23 64K channels and 1 D 16/64K (Signalling) Channel > T1 costs less than PRI SOmetimes....depends on tarrif's and other factors. > PRI can do ISDN, T1 can't... This is not true. You can use DOV (data-over-voice) to connect ISDN calls into your CT-1. > > Sprint is trying to convince me to buy a PRI instead of a T1. If I > knew the difference, it would sure help... > If PRI's are cheaper...buy all means get a PRI. As meantioned earlier, there are quite a few added benefits to running PRI's instead of CT-1's. However, this is way off topic for this list. Look for more info on some ISP lists. Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message