See inline... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:29 PM Subject: KX-T: KX-TD T1 Integration
| The boss was speaking with our sales rep from our telephone line provider | (McCloud) today. The rep is pushing the benefits of T1 service. Given our | current number of lines (eight into the KX-T, one for our FAX) the monthly costs | are pretty much a wash, but apparently the long distance savings are | considerable. We use a _lot_ of long distance minutes. I've never heard of long distance rates being affected by the type of local loop you use. That is actually a rediculous claim. I'm not saying McLeod doesn't offer some type of LD plan to promote local T1 service, but I can't imagine why they would do that. | | Anyone care to clue in the (truly) clueless regarding what switching to T1 will | entail. Just a few questions off the top of my head: | | 1. Looks like I need a KX-TD187 T1 module. Not cheap. Is there any additional | hardware required? You may need an external CSU/DSU. | 2. We've got a -4 system. It appears to be the earliest rev compatible with the | above T1 module. Any shortcomings or problems for a -4 with T1 service vs. | later revisions? Can't help you here. | 3. The rep said something in regard to keeping one standard line in case the T1 | goes down. Does this make any sense? Is this merely protection against having | all your eggs in one basket - one line failure causing all of the phone lines to | go down? One line? For what? To call and report your T1 down I guess. Actually, there is more to this decision than that. Do you want to continue to receive calls while your T1 is down? If you get E&M or 2-way DID service (which most likely you will), then you won't be getting any calls while the T1 is down anyway. What I've done with T1 and PRI is have a small POTS hunt group with call forwarding on the main number. Normally, the main # is call forwarded to the designated DID on the T1/PRI. When the T1/PRI goes down, then we simply cancel call forwarding until it's back up (assuming it's not a cable cut, where the POTS lines will be down also). One of my clients actually has two buildings that are connected with 25 pr, so I had the POTS lines delivered to the 2nd building and brought them across to the system. This was done because the 2nd building is served by a different cable from the CO than the main building, so if a cable gets cut, we'll still have our POTS lines and small hunt group. | 4. How easily can the FAX be integrated or split off? I'm guessing that the | easiest thing might be to send incoming FAX calls to an XDP port on a digital | set. Is it relatively simple to disable access to one line from all (7230) sets | so that someone doesn't mistakenly tie up the line for an outgoing call? As I mentioned above, you should be getting E&M or 2-way DID service, so it won't be an issue. If you can only get standard DID service, then split your 24 lines between ground/loop start and DID based on the normal ratio of inbound to outbound calls. _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
