From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 6 21:25:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA16540 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA16518 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id UAA28612 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 20:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dbws.etinc.com (dbws.etinc.com [204.141.95.130]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA29824; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:21:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970406231423.006b0208@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 23:14:26 -0400 To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" From: dennis Subject: Re: E-1 ? Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:21 PM 4/6/97 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >At 01:21 PM 4/6/97 -0400, dennis wrote: >>At 06:41 PM 4/6/97 +0000, Richard Gresek wrote: >>>Hallo, >>> >>>we are an ISP in Germany and have an Request for Proposal from an US >>>Company for theit subsidiary here. >>>They are asking for an E-1 service. >>> >>>Can someone tell me what exactly E-1 in the US means? >> >>E-1 is the Europeon equivalent of T1, although its not really equivalent in >>that >>its 2.048Mbs, rather than 1.536, as they use 32 64k channels rather than 24. > >There is a bit of overhead along with 24 * 64 for 1.544 Mbs. Even this is >not set in stone, but is the guaranteed minimum rate. I've seen up to >1.724 on one of our T1s. Is this flame bait or what!!!? I'll resist..... :-) It really IS set in stone, I'm afraid. Dennis