Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!E.MS.UKY.EDU!david From: david@E.MS.UKY.EDU (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: ISDN in *your* life ..er.. *my* life anyway Message-ID: <7862@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 15 Dec 87 19:21:57 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 33 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu There's a rumor my roomate heard (er.. he heard this directly from one of the comm managers of the local telco while he was talking to the communications manager guy for the University) that this city would be able to upgrade to ISDN service within the next few months or a year. Apparently the local equipment had been scheduled for major replacement/repair a year or two ago, and the telco (GTE) thought ahead enough to install equipment capable of doing ISDN. I don't know any details about the local equipment ... other than that the wire leading to the appartment is normal looking twisted pair copper ... out on the phone pole is a little box (maybe 1.5 ft long) which is copper colored which the wire runs in to -- and is shared amongst our neighbors. I'm curious about what sort of equipment I/we'll need to take advantage of this ISDN. Obviously I can't just hook the phone cable up to a serial port on my computer. But also just as obviously, since the signals shouldn't ever be analog then we can't call the box which hooks my computer to the "phone line" a "modem". What is involved with this box-that-is-not-a-modem but which does-similar-things-to-what-modems-do? Who makes 'em? etc. I had a taste of what can be a couple of weeks ago when I was evaluating the Telebit modem ... I can't wait! -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Winter health warning: Remember, don't eat the yellow snow!