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- From: jcurran@nic.near.net (John Curran)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Re: Low cost ether/isdn brouters (was PC-NFS PPP Serial/ISDN driver wanted)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:40:21 -0500
- Organization: New England Academic and Research Network
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- Message-ID: <1jqen5$8jr@nic.near.net>
- References: <1993Jan21.224740.4259@gandalf.ca> <1jnj4tINN1io@nigel.msen.com>
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- In article <1jnj4tINN1io@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
- >
- >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...
-
- I concur. While there might be many unique applications that will require
- ISDN speaking remote bridges, one existing market (internet service providers)
- will be looking for low-end BRI router with demand-dial, filtering, and
- remote maintenance capabilities. Given the maximum link speed, performance
- will not be a distinguishing capability, and that means that low-cost will
- be a major feature of the market winner.
-
- /John
-