[c-nsp] DS3 breakdown for T1 resale

[Dan Lockwood]

The price savings on a CT3 mux happen for us at about 9.5 T1s.  Up until
that point it would be costing you money, perhaps a lot of money, to
have a CT3 to mux the customer T1s.  If you think that you are going to
have many more T1 customers than 9 or 10 then it would make sense
financially to go the CT3 route.  However I don't believe that they have
a multichannel T3 NM.  We run the PA-MC-2T3+ on a 7500 and it works like
a charm.  The nice thing about using the CT3, aside from the fact that
you don't have 28 cables, is that MaBell have to put the T1s onto their
fiber facilities in order to mux them, whereas in the past our T1s have
been end-to-end copper.  That simple fact alone has done wonders for our
reliability.

In terms of hardware costs, I'm sure you can find an attractive deal in
the used equipment market.  Perhaps a 7200, PA-T3 and PA-MC-T3.

Good luck,

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of ITE Max Palisson
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:09 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] DS3 breakdown for T1 resale

Hi, we have a 3845 with a NM1T3-E3 card connected to the Internet. We
are thinking about offering T1 access to the Internet to a dozen
customers, maybe more over time. Cost is a determining factor, as usual.
T1 service would be resold with block of static IPs from a /21, and we
need to handle the routing.

We were looking at using VWIC-2MFT-T1 on NM-2FE-2W network modules to
get up to 20 T1 lines (max. on a 3845 with DS3 installed), starting with
just 3 or 4 T1 ports.

Any suggestion on that setup to minimize upfront and long term costs,
offer additional services, maybe get a 7500 with a T3 to the Internet on
one side, and a channelized CT3 card to the CO ?

Thanks in advance for any feedback or network diagram or ideas!

  Pat


_______________________________________________
cisco-nsp mailing list  cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/