[63987] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Templin)
Mon Oct 13 17:53:25 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:17:14 -0500
From: "Pete Templin" <pete.templin@texlink.com>
To: "Bradley Dunn" <bradley@dunn.org>,
"Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
That suggests that it's an ASL (Analog Subscriber Line)... =20
Pete Templin
Senior Staff Engineer
TexLink Communications
(210) 892-4183
pete.templin@texlink.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley Dunn [mailto:bradley@dunn.org]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 4:05 PM
To: Christopher X. Candreva; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard =
issue
Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> I've seen this in the press repeatedly and it drives me almost as nuts =
as
> having to call DSL access hardware a modem.
What's wrong with calling it a modem? It MOdulates and DEModulates
between a digital bitstream and an analog signal.
Bradley
