[lug] [OT] WIC T1 or 56k

Timothy C. Klein teece at silverklein.net
Wed Sep 25 20:54:11 MDT 2002


* Sean Reifschneider (jafo at tummy.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:44:10PM -0600, TJ Schuler wrote:
> >This really will depend on what type of 56K circuit you have; if it is a DDS
> >circuit like most 56k lines I have seen then it will not work, but if it is
> 
> My first thought on hearing "56k" was that it was a frame relay line...
> Which affects the situation in weird and wonderful ways...
> 
> Do they actually do "fractional T1"s that aren't a multiple of 64K?
> 
> Sean

The way they described it when I used to work in telecom was that all
the DS0 circuits were 64K, but 56K was all that was usable, the
remaining 8K being "overhead."

Tim
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