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From: lamy@sobeco.sobeco.com (j.lamy)
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Subject: 38.4kbps Async Limited Distance Modems
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Does anyone make such beasts?  We want to connect a MIPS box with an
Equinox serial board to a Cisco terminal server for an el-cheapo slip
link.  Both will apparently do 38.4bps.  The two end-points of the
connection are within 500m of each other, in the downtown core, so we
would expect that limited distance data sets would work (i.e. we would
be within the few miles limit typical for synchronous data sets -- I'd
expect async modems to have the same range).

I've seen sync data sets from Amdahl that do 48kbps over a few miles,
but nothing so far that does 38.4.

We could go for a 56kbps digital connection, provided we could find a
cheap enough capacity splitter (a full-blown mux would be overkill and
overpriced).  Anyone got any experience with these things?


Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@sobeco.com, uunet!sobeco!lamy
Groupe Sobeco, 505 ouest, bd Rene-Levesque, Montreal Canada H2Z 1Y7