[1186] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: T3 Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Wed Aug 14 09:57:21 1991
To: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 09:17:12 EDT
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
> ... I think this is too strong
> considering the rollout of something so new under the sun that it has
> to use proprietary technologies and non-commercial equipment - though
> the adoption of commercial cisco software is heartening to many.
Why is IBM's router technology any more "proprietary" than Cisco's or
Wellfleet's or anybody else's?
Yes, T3 is tougher than we had imagined. As far as we know we're the first
non-channelized T3 network anywhere, but we did not expect to find that a
major source of difficulty would be that (unlike T1) T3 from different phone
companies does not necessarily interoperate.
-s
