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- From: tli@cisco.com (Tony Li)
- Newsgroups: ba.internet
- Subject: Re: ISDN Is Coming
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 07:30:07 GMT
- Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA
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- In article <1993Jan23.033913.26099@netcom.com> rlglende@netcom.com (Robert Lewis Glendenning) writes:
- Finally, National ISDN-1 is the US standard, and is incompatible with
- the European CCITT/ISO ISDN standard.
- If you want to blame someone, blame ATT, who has screwed up the
- standards, and customer groups fighting number identification.
-
- And blame each and every country that has decided to have its own
- per-country variant of ISDN. This is a clear case where the standards
- process has been abysmal. Can you say homologation? This is driving the
- cost of international ISDN products up, and consumers end up paying for it.
-
- The number identification issue isn't as bad as you make out. While it
- WOULD have been a convenient mechansim for providing calling-party
- authentication, there is more than one way to skin a cat...
-
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- 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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