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Re: (ASCEND) P50 and IDSL
At 04:17 PM 7/8/98 -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
...thanks "Dave"....
>I've got a ~2 year old P50 (bought it in, uh, January 1996 -- although I
ended
>up exchanging it a month or two later because the original one wouldn't boot
>without something hooked up to the serial console); I have been looking for a
>new ISP, and IDSL was attractive since I already had the P50.
>
>However, Ascend told me, today, that my p50 "simply cannot" work with IDSL,
Someone was confused here then. The P50 as with *any* other BRI ISDN TA like
it can be used as the client end of an IDSL loop. The only thing that you
would not be able to take advantage of with that model is the "voice" features
in the new IDSL-able Pipeline 75 and 85....
>because it requires different hardware. Now, this surprised me greatly,
since
>I'd read Ascend's press releases when IDSL was first announced, and the fact
>that it would work with existing ISDN devices was one of the biggest things
>about it.
The press release was correct.
>While it is, of course, certainly possible that Ascend changed the hardware
>sometime in the past two years, I'm hoping that the Ascend TechSupport guy
>thought I meant ADSL, not IDSL, and that it would, indeed, work with IDSL, no
>problems (if it means at 128k instead of 144k, I'll be happy -- I'd get a new
>router eventually, but this would mean I could defer some of the start up
>cost).
MAybe that was it!
Kevin Smith Ascend Communications...
Customer Satisfaction ...where Network Solutions never end.
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