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From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Digital phones for SLIP circuits
Keywords: SLIP, modems, phone-lines, most-cost-effective
Message-ID: <1991Apr02.211931.20931@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 2 Apr 91 21:19:31 GMT
References: <8204@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>
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In article <8204@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> efb@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL (Everett F Batey II) writes:
>Confronted with an urgent need to run SLIP between two Sun3s (OS 4.1 and
>4.1.1) and some easy to comeby telephone assets AND NO money for modems,
>we are trying to pick the most trustworthy and easy to accomplish SLIP
>link.  Sites are within 3 miles, wire, 1/2 mile crow flight.
>
>- We have Meridian phones for which we can get 9600 baud RS-232 interfaces.
>DOES ANYBODY know if with handshaking and async over digitized phone line,
>these data phone options WORK SUCCESSFULLY for this purpose ?

I have Northern Telecom Meridian 1 telephones also.  I also have the data 
units equipped in EVERY telephone!  They work quite well.  We use them for
modem pooling, we have two T1000's and a pair of UDS 9600 baud modems that 
every one in house has access to.  I plan to use these for slip soon when I
get TCP/IP for DOS that supports slip.  I do use them for UUCP through the 
modem pools.  These beasts actually run up to 19.2K asynch.  Units that run
up to 64K sysnchronous are available.  If you have digital TIE lines between
your sites you should have no problem doing this up to 56K.

Vance Shipley
vances@ltg
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