From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 18:48:00 GMT-3
At 1:33 PM -0800 3/24/04, perkinsr@wellsfargo.com wrote:
>Has anyone used an Adtran Atlas 550? I am working with a school that has 3
>of them for 3 different racks of equipment. They are acting as a frame
>switch and isdn simulator and have the added flexibility of being able to
>also act as a point to point switch. This way the lab can be switched from
>frame relay to point to point by configuring the Adtran instead of recabling
>from a frame switch to back to back cables.
>
>Anyway, this is working great for each rack, what I am wondering is if there
>is a way to interconnect the Adtran so that I can build a frame/PPP/ISDN
>circuit that crosses chassis. That way I could interconnect all the Adtran
>and when needed use all the devices in the lab as one big lab. We currently
>have the Ethernet switches trunked together and use that for some big
>projects, but we would like to do the same for the WAN connections.
>
>TIA,
>Ray
I think the 550 is the model I'm thinking of. If it's the right one,
it can take a DS3 card. Run the DS3 from each box to a router that
can act as a master frame switch.
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