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- Path: sparky!uunet!aria!marc
- From: marc@aria.Ascend.COM (Marco S Hyman)
- Newsgroups: ba.internet
- Subject: Re: ISDN Is Coming
- Message-ID: <5437@aria.Ascend.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:45:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.184217.8922@netcom.com> <VERBER.93Jan22145319@avalon.parc.xerox.com> <1993Jan23.021458.24980@csus.edu>
- Distribution: ba
- Organization: Ascend Communications, Alameda, CA
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan23.021458.24980@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes:
- > As an "island" service only. I can order ISDN in my part of San
- > Francisco, but I can't even talk to someone less than two miles away.
- > Technically, ISDN won't really be "here" until something like 1997.
-
- Say what? This rumor (urban legend??) is so persistant... From an ISDN
- phone in my lab in Alameda (via a BRITE line to a 5ESS in Richmond) I can
- call any phone in the world! I can also replace the phone with a data
- device and call:
-
- * a PacBell 4-wire Sw56 phone number
- * an AT&T PRI line that feeds our PBX. Note: The PBX then drops the calls
- into internal PRI and T1 lines.
- * Any AT&T accunet number (700/737-xxxx)
- * ISDN lines through out Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia and
- probably others -- those are just the ones I know we've connected with.
-
- Limitations, sure:
-
- * I may need to use 56 kbit/s instead of 64 kbit/s.
- * On incoming international calls especially the bearer cap may lie and
- tell me I've got a 64 kbit/s link when it's really 56 kbit/s.
- * How come I've got to have the BRITE lines
-
- This isn't just engineering playing. Our customer service also uses these
- lines to provide customer support. (Ascend makes an Inverse MUX and many
- customers first data call after installation is to our Customer Support
- group).
-
- // marc
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