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From: haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: cisco/isdn
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.093347.18579@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 90 16:33:46 GMT
References: <2241@ecrc.de> <1990Nov29.141455.48@cnedcu51.bitnet>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <2241@ecrc.de>, dave@ecrc.de (Dave Morton) writes:
> Do Cisco have any plans to provide an ISDN interface for their routers ?

The University of Utah expects to be on an exchange supporting ISDN in
roughly one year.  To prepare for that insurmountable opportunity :-)
we expect to install a few ISDN lines remotely from another exchange.
This raises the issue of what connectivity we can support.  Ideally I would
like to have people with machines at home (Mac/PC/Sun etc.) able to open
a 64k channel into the University and run in client/server mode or something
similar.  I would envision a box that ultimately works like this:

                         -----------           ------------
ISDN primary ============|   box   |-----------|   AGS+   |------- Ethernet
                         -----------           ------------

such that a user running, say, Novell or NFS or an X window at home could
make the appropriate connection to a corresponding machine at the
University.  Does cisco have plans for such a box?

Thanks  -- Walt Haas    haas@ski.utah.edu