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- From: imhw400@indyvax.iupui.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Re: Network Connections over ISDN
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.161822.155@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 16:18:22 -0500
- References: <o7jfnjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <1992Aug10.132038.26320@ericsson.se> <17079@ulysses.att.com>
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- In article <17079@ulysses.att.com>, lgm@ulysses.att.com (L. G. McKnight) writes:
- [much highly useful discussion deleted -- thanks for explaining!]
- > A call can be set up to route data to a packet switched network by any
- > number of routes. Currently our CO switch routes D-channel data to
- > the packet handler section of the switch. Higher data rates are
- > more economically sent as circuit switched data so our switch does
- > not have a link from the B-channel to the packet switched network.
-
- Um, what path do I take if I want to connect a service intended to be used
- concurrently by a significant number of subscribers, to the packet handler? Do
- I put in a bucketful of BRIs and waste the B channels, accepting one call on
- each D channel? I think I'd rather have the PH multiplex the packets onto a
- single higher-bandwidth channel (a B channel, for example, if the anticipated
- concurrent subscriber load is not *too* large).
-
- [more deletia]
- > The rates for telephone services in the U.S. are too complex to
- > discuss here. But certainly B-channel connections are not expensive --
- > as every modem user knows. Sending data over B-channels is no more
- > expensive than sending VBD using a modem. D-channel data should be cheaper
- > for bursty data over long distances. If D-channel data is not cheaper
- > then data will be sent circuit switched over the B-channel.
-
- No more expensive for the *carriers*. But take a look at the tariffs that have
- been filed, and rejected, and rewritten, if you want to see how expensive it
- could have been for the *subscribers*. I think that engineers need to take a
- few moments, now and then, to ring up the sales office and find out what
- marketing decisions have done to the desirability of their beautiful creations.
- Some might be shocked.
-
- [still more deletia]
- > As I said above, all the long distance switches in the U.S. are digital
- > and digital switches are gradually relacing analog switches in the LEC's.
- > Digital switches are by their very nature designed to handle data.
- > However the telephone companies must make the investment in hardware
- > and software to handle ISDN. If there are only a few users to bear
- > the cost then ISDN will be expensive. But there is nothing intrinsic
- > in ISDN to make the service more expensive than the POTS service we
- > have now.
-
- Don't get me started on the policy of sell-to-PBX-owners-first/residential-
- subscribers-when-we-get-around-to-it.
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