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Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Mon May 14 08:22:01 2001

Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:06:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Hunter Pine <hunter@compuhelp.com>
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Hunter Pine:
> You are aware that a good percentage of the T1's you purchase nowadays are
> just a pair of bonded 768 dsl lines, right? The phone companies have been
> doing that for over 20 years to save on copper.

Huh? 

Just for starters: HDLC circuits run on different voltages, have timing
and a bunch of other characteristics that xDSL never heard of. 
We are seeing BellSouth run 2 wire T1's, which have been working well so
far. Still not DSL (approx 900mhz over POTS). --Mike--





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