[3291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet access and telco usage patterns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Mon Jul 1 22:17:29 1996
From: sob@academ.com (Stan Barber)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:13:22 CDT
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
> Has anybody looked at the practicality of installing modem pools in each
> telco switch location to grab the dialup user's traffic at the IP level
> and then route it to their ISP of choice for authentication and further
> routing. In other words, an ISP wouldn't buy phone lines, modems and
> terminal servers, they would buy IP access ports.
Southwestern Bell has described such a service they claim to offer here in
Texas, though I have not seen it yet. At one point, I had heard that
Ameritech and PAC*BELL were bothing looking at something like this. I never
saw if they actually did it or not, though.
CampusMCI is something like this, but of course there is only one ISP
of choice in that case :-).
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