[11918] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: X.25 with Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert G. Moskowitz)
Mon Apr 25 02:08:53 1994
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 94 23:22 EST
From: "Robert G. Moskowitz" <0003858921@mcimail.com>
To: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: com priv <com-priv@psi.com>
>I have a meeting on Monday with someone who says they are mixing frame
>relay with Internet connectivity. Can anyone with experience with such a
>mixture, or lack-of-mixability possibly tell me some good or horror
>stories about this? My own past uses of X.25 were inconsistant with
>reasonable ftp, gopher, www and similar services, let alone ANY prospects
>of experimental services that are coming.
Well as far as Frame Relay and TCP/IP go, they mix very well. Chrysler
Finance Corp is moving to a TCP/IP network based on frame relay. Each
branch has a 56Kb link to our provider and they aggregate those into a
number of T1s into the Chrysler Corporate location. For us this worked out
as a very cost effective model. Both in terms of data service tarifs and
the corporate equipment required. I don't know from home the state of the
conversion, but it is well along...
Bob Moskowitz
Chrysler Corp
