Hi all, I haven't been here in a while. Seems the name of the forum changed from Meridian to CS1000.
I have an Option 51 and a number of Option 11 switches connected via leased point-to-point T1s from our telco. We now have a city-wide fiber system installed, and I'd like to convert the PRIs from telco copper to our own fiber. I don't want to convert them to IP packets and back again, I simply want to use fiber instead of copper (light instead of electrons). Seems to me we did it this way in a previous job, but I wasn't as directly involved.
Questions:
1) Can I do this?
2) What type of CSU should I be looking for to accomplish this?
3) Do I have to change any configuration in my PRI loops? Right now they're mostly B8ZS, but a couple are AMI.
4) Should I do it this way, or am I better off converting to IP packets and running these circuits through the network cloud, thereby not burning up fiber pairs to each of the locations?
4) Anything else I haven't asked already?
Thanks,
Ned
I have an Option 51 and a number of Option 11 switches connected via leased point-to-point T1s from our telco. We now have a city-wide fiber system installed, and I'd like to convert the PRIs from telco copper to our own fiber. I don't want to convert them to IP packets and back again, I simply want to use fiber instead of copper (light instead of electrons). Seems to me we did it this way in a previous job, but I wasn't as directly involved.
Questions:
1) Can I do this?
2) What type of CSU should I be looking for to accomplish this?
3) Do I have to change any configuration in my PRI loops? Right now they're mostly B8ZS, but a couple are AMI.
4) Should I do it this way, or am I better off converting to IP packets and running these circuits through the network cloud, thereby not burning up fiber pairs to each of the locations?
4) Anything else I haven't asked already?
Thanks,
Ned