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- From: tli@cisco.com (Tony Li)
- Newsgroups: ba.internet
- Subject: Re: ISDN Is Coming
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 07:24:29 GMT
- Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- References: <1993Jan22.184217.8922@netcom.com> <1993Jan23.021238.21407@informix.com>
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- In article <1993Jan23.021238.21407@informix.com> johng@informix.com (John Galloway) writes:
- Actually I have hard that the tarrif is asking for a service offering
- date around May (which since was just, or is just about to be, submitted
- to the PUC, is a pretty agressive aproval schedule).
- Howerver, this will offer ISDN on a standard business line, all usage
- will be measured. Residential ISDN, (with zone2 unmeasured service just
- like a POTS line is (2nd hand from the ISDN product manager at Pac Bell)
- still about 1-2 years away.
-
- Actually, I believe that you can pretty much order ISDN right now. And the
- price is affordable, but you end up setting up your own Centrex group to
- get it set up. This may not be a problem if you're intending to connect to
- a single other site, such as your Internet connectivity provider.
-
- The REAL problem is that there is not yet a tarrif for ISDN repeater
- service. This means that you have to be within some 27db loss (something
- like 18000ft) of your local wire center. This is a problem.
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- abyss \*-'bis\ n
- 1 : the bottomless gulf, pit, or chaos of the old cosmogonies 2 a : an
- immeasurably deep gulf or great space b : intellectual or spiritual
- profundity; also : vast moral depravity 3 a Border Intermediate System
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