[14782] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (^Faust^)
Fri Jan 23 17:35:26 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:17:28 -0800
From: ^Faust^ <faust@grift.com>
To: Geoff White <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net>
CC: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>, "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>,
nanog@merit.edu
Tell him to order a 2-wire alarm circuit and slap a Tut 12000 (or your favorite
product) on each end. Yes, I've done it. And yes, it was in P*B territory.
Geoff White wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, ^Faust^ wrote:
>
> > Geoff White wrote:
> >
> > > Well my understanding here in PacBell/SBC land is that the way it will
> > > work, (this comes from someone who made a naieve inquiry to another
> > > equally naieve saleperson at PacBell/SBC), is that you need to connect to
> > > PacBell's ATM backbone in order to order xDSL (the person just wanted to
> > > connect from their home to the office), when I heard this I though it was
> > > totally absurd but the truth, as they say is far stranger :)
> >
> > Why is this absurd? You think coolocating routers at COs is less absurd?
> > Aggregating DSL traffic in a DSLAM and pumping it out via ATM is the
> > right way to do things.
> >
>
> No it was absurd because my friend just wanted to run two adsl "modems"
> between his office and home on copper. He was told that to do that he
> needed to connect to PacBell's ATM backbone, that's whats absurd.
