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From: Jeff.Scheer@f23.n285.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Scheer)
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Subject: Re: Question About "Point of Demarcation"
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Date: 15 Nov 90 02:29:44 GMT
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Most obviously any large business, regardless of two trunks or fifty
trunks has a demarc box outside.  I for one, have a hundred pair
demarc cable block outside my back door, but then again, most people
don't run a business out of their home.
 
As for large PBX's, would a voice mail operation with five DID trunks
count as a "PBX"??  As for a "PBX" itself, what about a 555 cord board
for a main answering point?  I know I need an RJ21X, but how many?
Will one cover the incoming DID trunks, along with business lines and
the voice mail inbound directly to a"regular" house jack?  Please
respond as I am in a wheelchair, and can't really get out to
investigate at the library/ or the library at the USWEST office in
Omaha; although I have asked USWEST to send me a copy of the schematic
for a 555.
 
I know this is the ninties, but I enter messages on the computer with
a software program that I have.  I can jumper into the computer along
with the voice mail card to provide simultaneous voice/data by using
one line out for the computer and me on the other.  Anyway with the
electric situation that usually occurs in the Midwest during the
summer or winter, I feel that a 555 cord board is "handy" to have
around, since I'm not dependent on an auxilliary generator to have the
power to run both computer and phone system.


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