[131799] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Thu Nov 4 10:52:22 2010
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:52:05 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1011021946120.26001@a84-22-97-10.cb3rob.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/2/2010 3:49 PM, 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 ;)
>
The last I knew all the ATM (Automated Teller Machines) all ran on X.25
--Curtis
