[3310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet access and telco usage patterns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu Jul 4 20:43:17 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 17:36:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.93.960704163402.7590A-100000@halcyon.halcyon.com>
On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Ed Morin wrote:
> GTE has been promoting this model for several years now. They seem to
> be getting closer to something reasonable and I guess several ISP's are
> considering and/or doing it.
> > 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.
I now find that BC-Tel is offering this service in parts of British
Columbia. BC-Tel is half owned by GTE.
Michael Dillon ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
