payton

1st - thanks for help with remote admin on a partner acs r3, took some time to find it but the answers were all there. This will sometimes save me having to hike (in waders) across a river to get to one of my systems.

real question. t-1, how to learn about them, order them. I am an electrician most days but due to location (100 miles from anyone specialized) I also admin 4 phone systems, two Partner ACS's among them. (and do it badly, I'm sure)

One site, a school, is remote but has a 4 channel t-1 radio link for voice and data. costs a fortune for a remote network company to provide a 56k internet circuit, and the school needs more. I am convinced I could hook a t-1 to their pbx and save them some money. Currently using 19 co's on the t-1 channel bank, and for one thing this would save two d/a conversions by allowing the phone co to provision it as a t-1 instead of breaking it out in town, into a tellabs channel bank to make a t-1, wired out of town, radio across a river and back out of a mirror channel bank.

If that sounds backwards, it may be. believe it or not the local telco guys know less than I do. only in alaska.

figured you guys might know where to look this stuff up, and have tips for a data circuit newbie.Thanks