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From: cfctech!alexb@sharkey.cc.umich.edu (Alex Beylin)
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Subject: Re: ISDN Service in Ann Arbor Area
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Brian writes:

>ISDN service is in Ann Arbor.  Service is provided by a 5ESS.
>I believe that much of Ann Arbor is serviced by the one CO,
>although some Ann Arbor mailing addresses (like me in Glenoce Hills
>at US-23 and Washtenaw) go through a different office.

Wow! We are much further along then I thought.  DO we know where the
dividing line is and where the CO itself is located?

>I've heard that MBT is going to hook up people to ISDN
>on a test basis in early 1990.  I believe you must be
>within 10,000 feet of the MBT office.

Where is the CO located anyways?  And why the 10,000 feet limitation?
I wonder how many people are willing to move closer to the CO in order
to get ISDN at home.  I probably would.

>I think both Dory and I are hoping to do more with ISDN
>if we can get Michigan Bell and U-M together for some
>interesting projects.  Several of the MBT employees have
>MTS accounts, and they do read mail there.  One person
>we worked with is Peter Lodwick.

 From talking to people at SemiSLUG meetings I know there is a lot of
interest in ISDN-at-home as a step in the Internet-at-home direction.
Pehaps we can start a discussion here as to what all we need, who is
interested, etc.

A few questions come to mind right away:

1. Equipment.  Does anyone know what does one need at home to
   connect a computer (PC-type or SUN) to ISDN?  Brian mentioned
   a Teleos B100PC board.  Can someone provide more details, pricing, etc?

2. Internet/Merit connectivity.  With the ongoing commercialization of
   Merit and for-pay Internet connections, perhaps enough interested
   folk would get together to buy/build an ISDN-Ethernet router.
   Maybe we could talk Merit folk into connecting it to the Merit
   network......  A lot of "maybes", but if there is enough interest,
   some really amazing projects could be started.

3. MaBell cooperation.  I think we may have a large enough group of
   people here to provide MaBell with incentive to get moving in our area.


As usual, I am just trying to cause trouble.  My final goal in all
this is to have a 64Kb link to Internet from home.  All other ways are
rather expensive, so ISDN has to be it.

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