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Re: (ASCEND) AO/DI support in MAX platform
At 17:26 1997/11/22 -0600, John Coy wrote:
>I had a client ask me about Always On/Dynamic ISDN (AO/DI). Evidently,
>this technology uses the D channel for persistant connections for
>low volume traffic and then uses some kind of algorithm to
>kick in the B channels when traffic levels required it.
check out:
http://www.bellsouthcorp.com/proactive/documents/render/11861.vtml
the North American ISDN Users' Forum had a conference on this
at the end of October, I hav'nt looked yet, but there
will probably be notes or transcripts or something:
http://www.niuf.nist.gov/misc/miuf.html
many LECs may not even offer X.25 data over the D channel,
and if they do, expect to really PAY for it...
>I was
>wondering if anyone had more pointers to information about this
>technology and if Ascend planned to support it (or if they
>support it currently, what platforms/software/options do I need
>to make use of it).
so far there are probably no consumer available products
that support it, just test equipment from a few vendors,
check the Vendors' ISDN Association:
http://www.via-isdn.org/
-Jim H
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