Hi Drew, We have several customer we do this with using DS3s. On our end we use an Adtran 830 DACS (pretty inexpensive). We use the T3SU at the customers end with various cards (depending on how much voice they want. We break out the voice channels and then run a HSSI connection to a router as a fractional DS3. In our case, we originate the dialtone at our facility with PRIs. then pipe then to the different customer locations that terminate via DS3s and CT3s at our facility, but you could easily do it with a point-to-pint DS3 and some Adtran equipment. I would suggest giving Adtran a call as they have a great pre-sales engineering department. And no I don't work for Adtran :-) Hope this helps. On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:58:48 -0500 Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> wrote:

We have a scenario where we have a DS3 at a Customer location that they want to use for both Data/PRI(voice) They need 8 Voice PRIs and they want to use the remainder of the DS3 for data. If we channelize this DS3, my question is, is it possible to use the unused portion of the DS3 as a fractional DS3, or would we have to terminate the rest as single T1s?

Thanks,

-Drew

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