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OC192 is an optical carrier (OC) that can handle 192 DS3s.  A DS3 is a 45 Mb/s signal that can carry internet data or it can carry 28 T1s, voice or data,  and 28 T1s is equal to 672 phone calls.  In other words,  an OC192 is a fiber optic system that can carry 192 DS3’s, which is 5376 T1s or 129,024 voice calls.  That is  a lot of voice and data traffic!   Read more»