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In article <4cfvdm$2pi@basecamp1.net-quest.com>, mike@news.net-quest.com 
says...

>     I am trying to find the best way to add a remote dialin POP.  I want
>to add about 10-20 dialin modems to a site about 60 miles away that can
>easily access my local server.
>
>     What I'm basically trying to do is find a way for these remote
>modems to (transparently) access all of my equipment like it was local to
>them.  (Of course I would like to keep it inexpensive as well...)  A real
>nice solution would be for the remote site to dial a number local to
>them, that would place them into my existing local modem pool hunt group.
>I would think that this would require having one remote-forwarded line to
>each of my local lines.  The problems I see with this is that it is messy
>(I use GTE and they have a *real* problem dealing with things that are
>even slightly complex sounding) and costly.

Since you probably don't want to muck with real estate, etc., the easiest
thing to do is to subscribe to PRI or Channelized T1 at a CO local to
where you want a presence.  Then pay for T1 mileage, usually $20-30/month
per mile within a LATA, to your actual location.  This gives you 23-24
channels which you can then terminate cleanly on a MAX4000, Total Control,
Aperture or other such PRI dial-in server.

If you do want real estate, then stick the server at the distant site
and run a leased line or FR back.  Figure on needing a certain amount of
IP backbone bandwidth per *average* user; perhaps 5000 bps/channel, which
means a single PRI server would require around a 128 kbps link.  YMMV.
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