On Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 01:17:03PM -0400, Brian Horvitz wrote:
Could be that they physically handle full and partial T1 circuits on different facilities. I would imagine that Sprint brings in many circuits on a large trunk so, to avoid the interruption of moving one end of the circuit which could take it down for hours while the telco does their work, they just install a new circuit and the customer does a cutover.
It could, I suppose... but it's not too likely. I presume you mean that they terminate Full- and Frac-T services on different routers at their end? Maybe, but who cares? I've done this sort of thing on Frame circuits, and it runs just the way he expected: you put two people on the circuit on the phone, they both flip the same switched at the same time, and your throughput changes. If they'll _upgrade_ you from Frac- to Full- that way, why in hell won't they downgrade you? The finances should be immaterial to the engineering, in this case. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "People propose, science studies, technology Tampa Bay, Florida conforms." -- Dr. Don Norman +1 813 790 7592