[126314] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue May 11 11:29:31 2010
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20100511150816.GB72680@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:29:06 -0400
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
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On 2010-05-11, at 11:08, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> There comes a time when the old tech just doesn't make sense, even
> if a small customer base still wants it.
There will also no doubt continue to be many customers for whom dial is =
the only option.
It's not long ago that I lived in such a house, deceptively close to the =
outskirts of town but in terms of wire distance and load coils it might =
as well have been on the moon. The house was in a wireless dead zone by =
a river, there was no cable, and the only line of sight to another =
structure was through several acres of 2.4GHz-absorbing trees.
The further you move away from urban centres, the easier it is to find =
examples of this.
Joe=
