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Re: ISDN save the need for modem terminal !?



You're probably right, it's more important to have as wide as possible
band (and a fast bus ofcourse, i.e. PCI), then a  long-distance-runner
CPU, for serving ISDN.

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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Ami Fischman wrote:

> [snip]
> > is the most common standard for ISDN today, other than some American
> > switches witch still give you single lines of 56k.
> BTW - 56k seems to be the standard in the US.  I've never seen a 64k line
> here.
> 
> > get a multi-port card and connect 20,30, or even 40 people to the same
> > machine, only make sure it's a Pentium first...
> I don't know about that.  I used to work in a place where we served about
> 25 modem sessions (9600 at the time) using a multiport card, and that was
> on an ancient AT&T 386 (with 4 megs of ram).  This was not with Linux
> (another 386 unix), but I doubt linux would require any real processor
> power just to serve ppp over modems...
> 
> 	--Ami Fischman <a540ami@pic.ucla.edu||http://pslc.ucla.edu/~a540ami>
> 		"...if he won't tell you something you want to know, cut off
> one of his fingers.  The little one.  Then tell him his thumb's next.  After
> that he'll tell you if he wears ladies' underwear.  I'm hungry.  Let's get a
> taco."	-- Harvey Keitel, "Reservoir Dogs"
> 


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