Obviously you don't have to buy it, but there are people demanding it.
It does avoid cable hell - no external T1/PRI cabling to mess with from
an external MUX. As well as being able to the configured and monitored as
part of the chassis, etc. I presume the external MUX you mention provides
the same redundancy as the T3 card?
>terminated DS0 & DS1's directly on the card it would be a nice product but
>to have to re-terminate the connections over to qudaT1 cards it is a
Well, since the modems are there I think it made sense. I do believe they
plan to do a native T3 card for non-modem use. In other words, being
able to terminate to the DS0 level on one card for ISDN or leased lines.
The limitation is really real estate for the DSPs - I think were a few
generations away from having a T3 of modems on one card.
-MZ
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