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From: zweig@cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig)
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Subject: ISDN Frame Relay Service
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Date: 6 Nov 90 04:49:10 GMT
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I was talking to Van Jacobson last week and he described a service his
local telco is going to offer real soon now in which the customer sets
up virtual calls using the D-channel and then dumps HDLC frames onto
the B-channel and they get routed by the CO switch. Zounds! This
sounds really neat -- the functionality of IP coming right out of the
funny-looking ISDN jack on the wall.  

Does anyone know more about this service?  I am mostly interested in
how reliable the frame delivery would be, whether frames would be
delivered in order, whether one could set up calls to the same
destination over both B-channels in a PRI (to crank out 128kbps to a
single other machine) and that sort of thing.


Johnny ISDN