osm@uunet.uu.net> (01/17/90)
From our office in Purchase, NY, we lease voice grade lines to several locations in nearby New York City. We have been looking into a NY Tel T1 line to save money while providing additional capacity for 56Kb data circuits. However, we do not have a location in NYC where we could terminate the T1 line. A "CO mux" has been recommended to us: our own T1 multiplexer in our Purchase office talking to a NY Tel owned multiplexer in a NY Tel CO, with analog lines fanning out from the CO. The problem seems to be that (in its infinite wisdom) NY Tel has determined that only analog data can be passed through such a configuration, which kills our idea of 56Kb data circuits. (Also in its infinite wisdom) NY Tel has offered to accept $1400 for a "feasibility study" of inserting a digital DS0 card into their CO mux. If they decide the idea is feasible, they'll then quote a price for providing us with this "special assembly" (in NY Tel terminology). Is NY Tel serious about (in these modern times) favoring analog over digital data? Are we looking at the right product?