[131741] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sven Olaf Kamphuis)
Tue Nov 2 16:01:04 2010
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:59:10 +0000 (UTC)
From: Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven@cb3rob.net>
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1011021946120.26001@a84-22-97-10.cb3rob.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
doesn't most of SMS (the crap on GSM's) also run on x.25?
i recall some customer of mine talking X.25 to a telco to get their
messages to the phones anyway.
same for one of our banks not so very long ago...
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
>> Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in operation? I had some
>> peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert conversion, and hear
>> it shut down sometime in 2003-4.
>
> http://www.ram.nl/nl/aanbieder_van_mobiele_datacommunicatie/diensten/netwerkdiensten?read_more=1323735124421760482
>
> also: yep.
>
> commercial x.25 based packet radio networks, and the wired parts to keep them
> together, are still around.
>
> (the non-commercial ones also ofcourse ;)
>
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> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Chris Boyd wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>>
>>> And FDDI and X.25 and every single legacy protocol
>>
>> Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in operation? I had some
>> peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert conversion, and hear
>> it shut down sometime in 2003-4.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>>
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