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- From: "Bob Larribeau" <p00136@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS PPP Serial/ISDN driver wanted
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan20.145148.12038W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
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- Organization: Consultant
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:01:40 GMT
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- >Why would the ISDN/Ethernet bridge include an NT1? When you install the
- >ISDN line, you install the NT1 as part of the Network Termination.
- >You don't have an NT1 in your ISDN phone, not in your ISDN fax, not in
- >your ISDN BRI card for your PC. Why would a bridge include it?
- >
-
- In the U.S. (unlike most of the rest of the world) the NT1 is customer
- equipment and not network equipment. It is the customer's
- responsibility to purchase and install the NT1.
-
- The reason for having a U interace in the ISDN bridge is that it can
- reduce cost by eliminating the need for the U interface to T interface
- conversion and then the T interface to Ethernet conversion by converting
- directly from the U interface to Ethernet.
-
- Note that this is not necessarily the same as integrating the bridge
- with an NT1. NT1s have an S/T inteface and support the passive bus.
- The U interface bridge would not require this function.
-
- The primary advantage of having an NT1 is that it permits support for
- passive bus and the ability to connect multiple devices on an ISDN line.
- However given the limitations of NI-1 in supporting B channel
- contention, this is not a strong reason. These limitations are supposed
- to disappear with NI-2.
-
- In the U.S. there are ISDN telephones and TAs with U interfaces. It
- does represent the lowest cost for connecting to an ISDN line. A voice
- only, U interface ISDN telephone is in the $200 price range.
-
- Bob Larribeau
- San Francisco
-