Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!daemon From: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (The devil himself) Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: Re: PROJECT VICTORIA (multiple connections with only 1 phone line) Message-ID: <8601270818.AA09313@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 19:58:45 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8601270818.AA09313 Posted: Sat Jan 25 19:58:45 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jan-86 08:02:07 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 33 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu >The system essentially converts a line that once allowed only a single >conversation or computer connection to carry two voice signals and >five computer signals simultaneously. Sounds amazingly like ISDN (except for the limit of 5 data calls, since the ISDN D channel has no such limit, as far as I know.) They also seem to imply that you don't need more pairs. ISDN needs 2 pairs instead of 1. I wonder if Victoria really only needs 1 pair? >No decisions have been made on how much the new service will cost or how it >will be marketed. John Lucas, a Pacific Bell spokesman, said that if a new >digital standard emerges, Victoria can be modified to be compatible. Sounds like Pacific Bell has never heard of ISDN. For Pete's sake, ISDN is an international standard! It's been implemented on 5ESS, goes on trial in Illinois this year, and our soon-to-be-upgraded-to-5ESS is expected to have ISDN installed and working in 1987. ReSent-Date: Mon 27 Jan 86 03:02:45-EST ReSent-From: The Moderator ReSent-Sender: ELMO@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU.#Internet ReSent-To: Telecom-Individual-Messages-List: ; ReSent-Message-ID: <12178511691.26.ELMO@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU> Is this one of those situations where the media strips out all technical information from press releases so the general public can understand it? Mark [Sounds like Pacific Bell is up to its usual tricks, trying to lock us into their system, and accordingly, their tariffs. -elmo]