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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:31800 comp.sys.intel:29063 comp.unix.bsd:15894 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8011 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9066 comp.unix.misc:15511 comp.os.linux.development:22409 comp.os.linux.misc:33293 comp.os.386bsd.development:3019 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4790 comp.os.misc:3693 Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!daemon.apana.org.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!neoucom.edu!neoucom.edu!redpoll!compass!ptomblin From: ptomblin@compass.telemax.com (Paul Tomblin) Subject: Re: X on dial-in Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Sender: ptomblin@compass.telemax.com (Paul Tomblin) Organization: Tomblin Computer Consulting, Akron, Ohio and Ottawa, Ontario Message-ID: <D29HIA.F5y@compass.telemax.com> References: <kiySJgG00iVCE3=0c=@andrew.cmu.edu> <3dqphu$bis@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <3euqjl$hcl@uwm.edu> <3f0qn9$qiu@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 22:08:33 GMT Lines: 49 Too many newsgroups there guys, I've trimmed it. In a previous article, porter@mu.enet.dec.com (dave porter) said: >In article <3euqjl$hcl@uwm.edu>, wraith@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (Robert Michael Gorichanaz) wrote: > >> "what is ISDN?" > >Imaginary >Service, >Delivered >Nowhere > > It Still Does Nothing. Aka the technology whose time won't come until it is obsolete. Seriously, ISDN stands for Integrated Services Digital Network, or something like that. It's a digital network provided by the telcos. Sometimes. If it's available. I used to work for the major networking company you've probably never heard of: Gandalf. We had some really cool networking stuff that used ISDN. One of them was a network hub that could connect your central TCP/IP or IPX lan to up to 64 other lans using ISDN. It would set up and tear down calls as needed, accept incoming calls, add extra bandwidth by opening up more ISDN channels, etc. This product, RLAN/ISDN was the major focus of our automated testing when I was working on the automated testing product. Another one, which may or may not be out yet, was a brouter to connect your local lan to another one using ISDN. Again, it could initiate calls, tear down calls, call up another B or D channel if you needed the bandwidth temporarily. You could even attach a phone to one of the D channels. If data was flowing over that D channel when you picked up the phone, it would automatically switch over (and not lose any data), and then go back to using it when you hung up. I think this one was called the 5250i, but to be quite honest in a year working there I could never keep the model numbers straight. Gandalf's proprietary data channel compression was supposed to be the best in the industry. We got pretty decent throughput because even our littlest desk-top bridge used an Intel i960 chip. -- Paul Tomblin, speaking from but not for telemax.com. <a href=http://watt.oedison.com:8080/~tomblinp/>My home page</a> "ICMP: The protocol that goes PING!" - Bill Garret.