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Date: 29 Apr 91 18:19:59 GMT
From: nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Decreasing Costs of Transmission
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In article <telecom11.306.1@eecs.nwu.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark
Fulk) writes:

> Now a phone call takes about 32 kb/s; let's say 50 kb/s to make the

     There are multiplexing schemes that only require 32kb/s for a
voice channel but they destroy high speed data and fax so are rarely
used in this country. The normal T1-cxr uses 64kb/s (8 bits times 8
Khz sample).

> 20 phone calls take 1 Mb/s (actually, T1 line at 1 Mb/s handles 32

     The standard T1 rate is 1.544 Mbits/sec and carries 24 not 32
channels.