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From: pozar@toad.com (Tim Pozar)
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Subject: Re: Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (was Re: Do Modem Users...)
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Date: 11 Dec 89 06:14:24 GMT
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In article <1841@accuvax.nwu.edu> nvuxr!deej@bellcore.bellcore.com 
(David Lewis) writes:

>In article <1759@accuvax.nwu.edu>, john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:
       
>> Bandwidth is not dynamically allowcated by some analysis of the 
>> sonic material on the line, but is fixed by the telco in the 
>> transmission system involved.
      
>> It would be a neat trick indeed if you could automatically get extra
>> bandwidth out of a telephone connection on demand. The audio leased
>> line department would go out of business in a hurry!
      
>Wait for Broadband ISDN.  SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork) layer 1,
>plus ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) layer 2, plus the appropriate
>definition of bearer capabilities, signaling, user-network interfaces,
  .....
      
    I hope it's better than the noisy and distortion prone 8-bit junk
than the stuff most phone equipment providers have been pushing.  We
(Broadcasters) need something at least 14 or 16 bits.


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