[c-nsp] Transporting TDM voice DS3s over Ethernet

[Michael K. Smith]

Hello:


On 7/14/06 12:59 PM, "Matthew Stainforth" <Matthew.Stainforth at nucomm.net>
wrote:

> 
> I'm trying to find a way to transport two DS3s carrying all TDM voice
> traffic (if it matters) over an ethernet segment.
> 
> 
> Telco| ============= |IX building| ---------------------- |co-lo|
> ========== |PBX|
> 
> Where ==== is two DS3 circuits and ------ is a 100meg ethernet vlan
> 
> I can get DS3s from the carrier to the IX but the co-lo provider only
> does ethernet between the IX and their premises (I was assuming it was
> sonet...so my bad)
> 
> My first thought was to use routers with DS3 cards and bridge the
> interfaces but it's not going to be that simple is it?
> 
> Has anyone out there tried something like this and found a solution?
> 
> Thanks...
> 

http://www.ds3switch.com/

I've used these in production and they work quite well, although their
website looks like it was put together by a junior high school student.

Mike