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- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Re: Low cost ether/isdn brouters (was PC-NFS PPP Serial/ISDN driver wanted)
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- Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:37:11 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Dave Carr (dcarr@gandalf.ca) wrote:
-
- : I made no such claim. A bridge cannot replace a router. But a router
- : IS overkill for many applications. Especially for replacing V.32 modems
- : in a dialup application. What do you want, a CISCO at home. You must
- : have a big net at home if you need BGP. And I thought all you needed was
- : OSPF at home.
-
- Dave, it's not at all unusual to have a router at home - most likely
- it's a Unix box running SLIP or PPP over V.32bis modems. Your ISDN
- gear is not replacing anything more than that modem and (maybe) that terminal
- server out there on the other end.
-
- Talk to Sun or HP or NeXT or SGI (?) and build a box that will run as
- a hub for the ISDN they are building onto their motherboards. Talk to
- Morning Star or their customers about what people are doing with PPP.
- Pick up some clues as to what is actually out there in the field today
- delivering Internet connections to people and build some gear that slides
- in nicely...aim at the equipment that's going to squash V.fast before it
- appears - 2B + NT1 in a single box, RS-232 or V.35, AT or V.25bis dialing,
- ship it list $999 day 1 quantity 1. - get there before someone like Adtran
- does...
-
- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
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