Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Two questions -- CM8 Mux and Intellidial Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 89 15:57:50 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci. Lines: 35 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 244, message 3 of 5 From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) >(Barry Shein) writes: >> >>1) Our building ran out of capacity so New England TelCo told us that >>they will be running a "CM8" which provides a multiplexed line >>service. Any caveats regarding this, particularly with using data >>modems? > >YES. DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO KEEP YOUR MODEM CIRCUITS, ESPECIALLY >ANYTHING FASTER THAN 1200 BAUD OFF THE DAMMED BOX !!!!! Ok, the story takes a new twist... Now they've changed their mind (they == N.E. TelCo) and are scheduling upping the capacity of the building to 600 pairs of copper. Unfortunately this will take two months or so and they say they're flat out of capacity until then. It seems to me that at this point it might be worth trying to get them to put something else in, something a little more modern that won't require digging up the streets and taking so much time like... (I dunno, we're only about 800 feet from the central office.) Suggestions and ammunition welcome, I get the feeling that a good suggestion here will save both parties a lot of trouble (the building tenants and TelCo.) The building is an office building with four floors, several retail on the first and a few dozen business on the others. We currently have about 150 lines going into the building and they're all used up with people screaming for more. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade 1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 Internet: bzs@skuld.std.com UUCP: encore!xylogics!skuld!bzs or uunet!skuld!bzs