Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 23:14:26 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E-1 ? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970406231423.006b0208@etinc.com>
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At 01:21 PM 4/6/97 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >At 01:21 PM 4/6/97 -0400, dennis wrote: >>At 06:41 PM 4/6/97 +0000, Richard Gresek wrote: >>>Hallo, >>> >>>we are an ISP in Germany and have an Request for Proposal from an US >>>Company for theit subsidiary here. >>>They are asking for an E-1 service. >>> >>>Can someone tell me what exactly E-1 in the US means? >> >>E-1 is the Europeon equivalent of T1, although its not really equivalent in >>that >>its 2.048Mbs, rather than 1.536, as they use 32 64k channels rather than 24. > >There is a bit of overhead along with 24 * 64 for 1.544 Mbs. Even this is >not set in stone, but is the guaranteed minimum rate. I've seen up to >1.724 on one of our T1s. Is this flame bait or what!!!? I'll resist..... :-) It really IS set in stone, I'm afraid. Dennis
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