-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Getting to something more operational, we've been deploying DSL here and there in onesies and twosies (well, even a dozen) alongside the dialup POPs, and not bothering a lot about adding more capacity. I've been keeping the number of modems to about 8 customers per modem, and 200 modems per T1 (roughly 8 per 56K channel), just as a rule of thumb. In our experience, this keeps the dialin lines busy at no more than 20 minutes per day at peak, and the T1s average 70% utilization at peak. Customers seem reasonably happy. We just got a bid on DSL service saying they provision at 200 DSL per T1. That seems awfully high to me, since DSL potentially runs a lot more traffic than 56Kbps modems. I was planning at 24 per T1. Who's right? We don't have enough aggregate experience with DSL, even though we've been offering it for about a year now. Individually, the chicken plant (our first installation), car parts factory, jeans factory, bookstores, etc, don't give a very consistent usage pattern. Any of the bigger folks have a rule of thumb? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQCVAwUBOq7NtNm/qMj6R+sxAQEAfQP/VsU6X6lJ8HbAFw4N73ThML5jXDvCZE6G AfO12mLxSWNyigxGkkf/nvsDWVFFnoMgs2v+yIxm/l+ec11i3EG3P3x0efYAyAX6 Xet28KyNx335kkT+WI1dz06nVfeWqUlldS+lgQPgODV8KlJms6T8fbkCT09As3t3 cORbWFxG6mw= =Nqoi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----