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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Illinois Bell ISDN Tariff
Message-ID: <1029@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 06:52:51 GMT
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in article <2283@ttidca.TTI.COM>, jackson.TTI.COM%sdcsvax@ttidca.UUCP (Dick Jackson) says:
> Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu
>>Questions for readers: Do you think their pricing is fair? Do you think
>>there is (will be soon) a market for ISDN service?  If ISDN was available
>>in your community, would [you] subscribe?  Why or why not?
> I see no compelling reason to choose ISDN other than voice economics, unless
> someone has a real need for 64kbps data. I don't believe such a need is
> common currently. I think it will be very interesting to see if ISDN finds
> customers (in the future) because of the new services it offers/will offer.

There is a real problem with the entire ISDN standard....
(no offense...) it was designed with a mainframe-to-mainframe mentality.
[Can you say re-gen your SNA network...??]

You only get 1 (!) packet courtesy of the ISDN provider in which to tell
the "other end" what kind of a beast you are.  Basicly, if you were to
invent a totally new device, or make a major improvement on an old one
you, and the other endpoint, are stuck with sync(ing) up on the open channel.
In a few years, you could be looking at 30+ seconds to make _any_ kind of
connection anywhere.

There is a simple fix for all of this, and inclusively covers _ANY_ kind of
amendments ot the standard!  This fix can be implemented as a _software
only_ (firmware?) change to any currently planned ISDN device [including
something like a 5ESS C.O. Switch.]  and covers such things as future
enhancements to the actual communications rates [etc.]

By implementing this fix, the thickness of the standard should be
substantially reduced.

I have already thought up 14 [or so] marketable devices for ues in the home,
each would make a certain cross-section of the home markets saleable,
and hardware manufactures could make _cheap_ devices to do a few things
everybody would like.  This fix can be sold to anybody.

The problem is, I can't seem to get to the correct person, to tell them.
I have talked to AT&T personnel who were directly working on ISDN
in one form or another.  I have talked to hardware manufactures, and
telcom professionals at TCA <in San Diego>.  I've talked till I'm
totally ill on the subject!

On the avrage, it takes about an hour [face to face, with diagrams] to
"convert" someone who really knows what's going on.  I've done it about
20 times, but the conversations always end with  "Your right!... but
I'm not the one you should be talking to..."  "Ok, who do I talk to?"
"I don't know...  If I can find someone, Ill have them call you."  Followed
by an exchange of buisness cards, and invariably a, I'm sorry I couldn't
help follow-up call  <they call me<.

The idea is VERY simple, and as such, would take too long to explain here
if nobody want's to hear about it.  If anybody cares, or would like to
discuss the idea here on the open net, send me a little mail.


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