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From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: 19200bps
Keywords: 19200 bps
Message-ID: <21533@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 May 91 00:17:07 GMT
References: <1991May5.185645.12902@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May5.201708.452@cec1.wustl.edu> <1492@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <48579@ut-emx.uucp> <21354@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991May11.152050.13051@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991May11.152050.13051@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner [hunter]) writes:
>In <21354@cbmvax.commodore.com> drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) writes:
>>ISDN - I Still Don't Know
>>       I Smell Dollars Now
>>       Innovations Subscribers Don't Need (my favorite)
>
>Here in Australia, ISDN is readily available.  Most people do not know this
>but the AXE exchanges we have all around us now are ISDN machines.
>At present they are running analog to the normal user but with a flick
>of the switch and lotsa lotsa lotsa money you get a know phone
>and ISDN.  Thats all that needs to be done...
>Telecom Australia plan to bring in ISDN as standard.  This to a degree
>is BAD.  Telecom have attempted to bring in time local calls for years.
>This is how they will do it.  ISDN is time everything and duoble time
>on DATA calls. (local calls in Australia are not just in same exchange
>but in the same City, iner and outer suberbs.)
>Even though we have ISDN, we may use modems over them as it will
>probably turn out cheaper then going ISDN data.

it's more or less the same story in most major areas in the US, also.  there's
ISDN buried in the central office - it's just a matter of hooking the
customer's wires to a different line card and flipping some bits in the
database.

i don't know how the phone system is managed in australia, but around here
it's pretty much a free for all as far as which long distance carriers use
whose switching equipment.  try plugging an AT&T ISDN phone into a northern
telecom switch to see how "standard" isdn is.  the interoffice stuff has
settled down pretty much (though some places are still using SS7 protocol
massaging boxes to interface between different "flavors" of SS7).

i think by the time ISDN is actually affordable and available to most people,
there'll be something even more wonderful right around the corner...

>James.

  --Scotty
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