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In my experience the breakeven point for a Frame Relay DS3 is 6 DS1
circuits. DS3's tend to be more reliable than DS1's as the ILEC usually
installs a MUX at your site instead of running to the nearest channel bank
and running the T1's over copper with a few repeaters thrown in for
good measure.
Another nice thing about DS3's is that it is easy to scale bandwidth in
the future by modifying the CIR on your link. Another feature is that
since the link is faster the serialization delay is lower which will give
you better latency and last but not least PA3+ for Cisco 7[2|5]xx routers
are inexpensive and give you one call for service not a separate call for
the CSU/DSU's and the serial line card you need to support a multilink
solution.
Scott C. McGrath
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Bryce Enevoldson wrote:
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> We are in the process of updating our internet connection to 8 t1's bound
> together. Due to price, our options have been narrowed to AT&T and MCI.
> I have two questions:
> 1. Which technology is better for binding t1's: multi link frame relay
> (mci's) or load balancing (att's)
> 2. Which company has a better pop in Atlanta: mci or att?
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> We are in the Chattanooga TN area and our current connection is 6 t1's
> through att but they will only bond 4 so they are split 4 and 2.
>
> Bryce Enevoldson
> Information Processing
> Southern Adventist University
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