[11816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dial-in access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (storpis@pbi.net)
Wed Aug 13 23:58:55 1997
From: storpis@pbi.net
To: kwe@geo.net (Kent W. England)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jan.novak@aliatel.cz, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970813105037.0070f8cc@zeus.geo.net> from "Kent W. England" at Aug 13, 97 10:50:37 am
Dans son message, Kent W. England ecrivait:
>
> If you are dealing with an existing voice switch, I don't think you have
> much choice but to handle it with that voice switch vendor's product. Third
> party solutions seem to have too much to do with handling call recognition
> to be cost effective. Both Nortel and Lucent have announced plans to deal
> with data calls by off-loading from the first voice switch onto a packet
> network. Frankly, I don't understand enough about voice switch architecture
> to know how well that deals with first-switch overloading, but it will
> certainly deal well with the inter-office trunk overloading that is
> prevalent in the US architecture.
I recommend exploring TR-303 technology based on Bellcore's TR-NWT-000303
specification. Everybody can do tandem trunk relief and far-end office relief
now. It is the near-end office relief that is being tackled now.
> data services are feasible? If not, you could always swim uphill with xDSL
> or cable modems. :-)
I won't get into that here ... ;-)
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Sharif Torpis (storpis@pbi.net)
Network Engineering
Pacific Bell Internet
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