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- From: tspencer@pilot.njin.net (Thomas Spencer IV)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Re: The ISDN network
- Message-ID: <Dec.26.23.48.48.1992.18316@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 04:48:49 GMT
- References: <2933258757.2.p00136@psilink.com> <1992Dec14.194114.23053@atlastele.com> <28542@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Dec16.192811.24323@atlastele.com>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- From: bcapps@atlastele.com (Brent Capps) writes:
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- >Resolution isn't what's driving the adoption of G4, speed is.
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- Which is the whole point of ISDN. What I find so interesting about
- the people who are saying that ISDN won't catch on is that they are
- completely ignoring the history of performance in computing.
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- New, fast equipment is bought because it is faster.
-
- I've been involved in retail, and if your gismo doesn't have the
- latest and greatest it won't sell, and if it does, it doesn't matter how
- much you charge, people will buy it. When people have ISDN available,
- it will be installed mearly because it is faster. No other reason. Just
- look at computers. Companies replace 8088, 8086, and 80286 machines just
- for their secretaries even though they will continue to use the non-windows
- version of Word Perfect. Why? Not because the older equipment won't do
- the job, because it can, but because it isn't the latest and greatest.
- The .003% of calls that refered to as the installed base of ISDN will
- grow. The backward compatability problem has been handled by multiple
- products (examples were given in other posts), and people who use computers
- will be in the vanguard of users who install ISDN. Anyone who connects to
- BBSs will want one to cut down on connect time. BBS operators will want
- to install it for a pair of reasons: a) Their users will want it, and b),
- it will cut down on connect time of each user so a single line can handle
- more people.
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- ISDN will become very popular once it is widely available. We should
- stop saying it won't be because history doesn't support it. The only real
- danger that ISDN (ie, the two 64kbps channels and one 16kbps channel) faces
- is that Broadband ISDN will be only a year or two behind in deployment.
- A town in New Jersey will have Broadband ISDN installed by '95, not as a
- test, but as a working, stable installation. By '96, that will be the
- standard for any new installation of phone service. This is not a possibility,
- but reality. ISDN might not become widely used on the east coast because the
- next generation will already be to market.
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- Tom Spencer
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