Path: utzoo!attcan!cmtl01!matrox!uvm-gen!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: sybase!calvin!ben@Sun.COM (ben ullrich) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: cheap & easy circuit backup Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 89 17:58:08 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 26, message 1 Every once in awhile, out local telco manages to cripple our customer support (among other things) by cutting several of our analog circuits. this seems to happen because the area we're in is under heavy construction, but nevertheless we're looking to get some sort of backup for out incoming and outgoing circuits for this and other (perhaps more disastrous) outages. we're looking for something that won't be too expensive, since we are something of a smallish operation (only 16 did's and 16 co trunks) and don't have a lot of money to dump into something we'll almost never need. one idea being kicked around is plain ol cellular phones. the budget-writers here really like this one, but i'd like to know what others more experienced in both cellular and backup systems have to say. i'd also like suggestions for inexpensive backup circuits. the general end is to skip the local telco in the area from our building to the CO. this seems to me to require the the solution be wireless. (microwave is too expensive). thanks to any help you folks can provide. please mail to me, and i'll summarize if there are enough responses. ...ben ---- ben ullrich consider my words disclaimed,if you consider them at all sybase, inc. "everybody gets so much information all day long that emeryville, ca they lose their common sense." -- gertrude stein (415) 596 - 3654 ben%sybase.com@sun.com {pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis,capmkt}!sybase!ben