> I've been told by Ascend^WLucent tech support that the max is a DS3. > Just because you can put more cards in doesn't mean you > should. It will > not work reliably (I think there may be limitations on the > speed of the > backplane). Ummm... Let me take an exception to it. TNT TDM bus has 1024 timeslots. You can happily use TNT with 960 ports - with a CT3 (DS3 - 672 DS0) + 2 x CT1 (each is 8 x DS1 - 192 DS0; you will be able to use 1 and a half of CT1 max) cards for an ingress, 10 96 ports cards for processing, and one Ethernet III card (with or without dongle ) for egress. If you are on an E1 countries, you can use 4 x CE1 ( each has 8 E1), 10 96-modem cards and 1 Fast Ethernet egress. Total - 14 cards for T1 countries, so get one more 96 modem just to have a spare sitting in chassis...:-). It works. _zjt ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>