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From: rsj@ox.com (Rick Jaffe)
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Subject: Intra-LATA Private Lines
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Date: 19 Feb 91 17:22:00 GMT
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 From our office in Purchase, New York (near White Plains) we run
fourteen ARD's and a 56Kb data line into various locations in the Wall
Street and Midtown areas.

Attempting to save money, we priced a "CO mux" from NYTel.  This is a
T1 line coupled with a rented multiplexer in a NYC CO.  We would
provide the T1 multiplexer in our Purchase office.

Three problems:

 . We prefer to rent both multiplexers from our telecommunications line
  vendor, so that only one telephone call need be made in the event of
  a problem.

 . NYTel refuses to allow digital traffic over their "CO mux", so our
  56Kb line can't be routed this way.

 . Price:  NYTel charges so much for the multiplexer that the T1 line
  doesn't come close to breaking even at our current usage level of 15
  DS0's. 

These fifteen circuits are "intra-LATA".  Do we have any alternatives?


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