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- From: bantha.decnet.lockheed.com!young
- Subject: Legalities
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.131217.26416@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Reply-To: young@bantha.decnet.lockheed.com
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:12:17 GMT
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- Scenario:
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- Assume that some hub vendor has met the user requirements, and users
- are now buying these simple cell relay hubs and installing them in
- their closets. Along comes a young aggressive value added network
- company and builds a value added network using exactly the same equipment
- that the user is buying. Now the user has seamless network connectivity
- and all the third party applications which run in his shop also run over
- the value added network.
-
- Among these applications are voice messaging, desktop controlled
- conferencing, voice/text documents, remote "touch tone" access, and
- even plain old telephone pass through.
-
- Legal question:
-
- Cell relay carries all forms of traffic, but the VAN does nothing
- special with regard to voice, the VAN simply allows user applications
- to operate over his multi-service network.
-
- Is the VAN violating any law?
- Matt Young
- Lockheed
- (408) 756-6789
-