Bennington and Nay commented that they are in agreement with this statement. Watson and King will present this to the Management Committee on March 23rd. Service is going well. Some issues have arisen but were resolved. As with any new technology there was a learning curve to understand what could be done with ATM voice and what limitations existed.
Voice quality is good.
FAX traffic is supported but modem traffic will not pass at this time. Of the five campuses being served, Tri-State is the only one, which noticed a problem with modem traffic. They worked around the problem by reassigned class of service on the stations needing to uses modems. Availability of the ATM backbone connection, which can be shared for voice traffic helps, keeps costs down. The plan is to have each T1 going to a school currently to surrender some of its bandwidth for carrying voice traffic.