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In the past Month our T-1 Line has been down twice due to vandalism. Some people are Cutting the main 400 Pair telephone cable coming down the street. This is an ongoing problem in this area. I am not sure if it is to steal the Copper, Disable alarms, or just being malicious.

I cannot afford to be down the 8+ hours when Verizon is Re-splicing the line when this occurs.

A Copper POTS backup line is no help in this situation due to cutting the main line.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

I have looked into the Multi-tech Call finder: https://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS/Families/CallFinderGSM/

This may work, anyone have anything better?

We have a CIX-670.

Do you have broadband internet that isn't supplied by the T-1? If so, get a vonage line as a back-up and wire it onto an RCOU card. $24.95 a month will go a long way to pay off that $499.00!!

Our office was playng with that device a while back ( I thnk it was that same one). Seemed to work pretty good from what I could tell. Not sure about incoming unless you can tell the phone carrier to reroute incoming calls to that number if the T1 goes down.

I did a microwave link last year. ran at 10 mbps up and down. Try and cut this.

If your broadband is on the same copper cable then you will lose that as well so then voip/sip isnt going to work, the Gsm gateways work very well there are many versions, some connect to Rcou cards some to Rptu card. but it does depend on you gsm cell coverage.

Try this link, I know its in the Uk but some of these Gsm's maybe available in the Usa.
https://www.premiertelephones.com/a...ixed-Cellular-Terminal-GSM-WT204-UK.html

I Would love to go the VoIP route, but RobB is Right, same Copper. I aslo like Zap's Idea, but even for a 768k Dedicated Wireless Pipe, then add the Vonage line, cost more than a $9.99 add a line cell phone. I did look into using a 3G wireless card (Which we have for data backup already) with vontage but it seems the cell networks don't support VoIP over 3G very well to known VoIP providers, at least in my testing(Please correct me if you have found otherwise).

The $499.99(Worst Case) cost for the multitech is a drop in the bucket, compaired to cost of missing that one call, Plus, that is a Non Recuring Charge. The $9.99 a month to add a line is almost nothing but I could also use that line for outbound Cell calls and avoid using minutes on both ends, correct?

Now the only problem is finding an open Loop Start line or Analog Station Port. I may have to move some cards around in the cabinet to make this work. I think I am out of analog lines.

Why not look into a couple of magicjack lines?