Re: PRI channel bonding?

Jeff Carneal (jeff@apex.apex.net)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 18:13:18 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Jake Messinger wrote:

> > PRI, and I have a PM3 and a PRI. Can the customer dial out with N
> > channels to my PM3 and bond as many as he pleases for a bandwidth of
> > N*64k? I understand this isn't a very cost efficient scenario, but I'm
> > curious if it would work.
>
> If the customer has a pm product like a pm2ei, you can do Multi Line Load
> Balancing which is supposed to be better than MLPPP anyway.

Yeah, but what i want is for the customer to dial out on a PM3, and, using
MLPPP, bond N channels where N is no less than 23. Being able to bond two
PRI (from the same chasis) would really be ideal.

> > If it does work, what is the limit to the number of B channels? Can the
> > PM3 MLPPP bond channels on two different PRI?
>
> That is multi chassis mlppp if I am not mistaken. I do not know if that is
> supported properly.

I don't think multi chasis is what I'm looking for. If I have two PRI in
one PM3, can I use them both to dial to a remote PM3 and bond all 46
channels together for the session (assuming the telco is using out of band
signalling and all channels from point A to point B are clear channel
64k)? What are the limitations of the PM3 regarding this?

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