[c-nsp] Any gotcha's using this setup to terminate a bunch of T-1's

[Michael Loftis]

--On April 26, 2006 9:24:09 PM -0400 Pete Templin <petelists at templin.org> 
wrote:

> Bruce Robertson wrote:
>> Should work fine, but unless you have the hardware on-hand,  instead of
>> the 4x PA-MC-8T1, I'd use a PA-MC-2T3 talking to an M13 mux, or better
>> yet have the telco deliver the T1s over a DS3.  You can get an Adtran
>> MX2800 pretty cheap on eBay these days, though the PA-MC-2T3 will be
>> pretty expensive still.
>
> Caution: multiple people, including me, have experienced problems with
> the MX2800 or MX2820 muxes talking to PA-MC-2T3 cards.  I for one had to
> insert 100' of excess coax to get the error counters into single digits,
> and in another instance had to insert several hundred feet of excess
> coax to get the error counters into single or occasionally double
> digits; attenuators finally fixed that scenario.

This has come up before....they sell signal attenuators for just such 
things.

>
> pt
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