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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:01:10 GMT
- From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Anybody Know of LARGE Modem Server Systems?
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- In article <telecom12.912.13@eecs.nwu.edu> mtndew!friedl@uunet.UU.NET
- writes:
-
- > I have a customer who may need to set up a huge number of modem
- > lines to service incoming calls to his UNIX system, and he wants to
- > find a system that already does this rather than roll his own. While
- > we could probably do it ourselves for small numbers of lines (say, up
- > to 32), these may just not scale up very well to handling several
- > hundred modems and serial lines and phone lines.
-
- An interesting approach is offered by a company named Primary Access.
- With their hardware/firmware/software solution you would have several
- T-1 (digital) lines carry the telephone lines into the Primary Access
- box. Digital Signal Proccessors in the box would do V.32 or whatever
- and you would connect the box to your host over T-1, RS-232 or whatever.
-
- Apparently this is used extensively by Compuserve.
-
- I don't know anything more about these guys than what their brochures
- say.
-
-
- Vance Shipley vances@xenitec.on.ca
- vances@switchview.com vances@ltg.uucp
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