I don't know if I'm understanding your first sentence above about bouncing ideas - but I hope I haven't been too annoying! I'd probably be interested in paying for some of your time once I get a bit deeper into this. BTW, we don't have a T-berd (I wish) but I will probably purchase a used Nortel DTI card for testing before we cut. The MICS programming is all done through the phone.

The biggest issue will be that the Nortel won't act as QSIG slave (from what I've read). I'd be OK if it was a BCM or CS1K, but we're kind of screwed on the MICS front.

There still may be some work arounds, but I'll have to do some on-site testing. T1 may be an option in which case it looks like I'd need a different card for the TDE. The easiest solution would be to make the TDE emulate a Telco on the master side of PRI connection, but that's doubtful.

I can always fall back on using 8 or so analog COs/Exts to connect the two.

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