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Re: (ASCEND) Does Ascend make a TA that supports x.121 packet transfers?
I am aware that the Pipeline product line (aside from the Pipeline 15)
is an ethernet based solution. My company has about 200 of those little
suckers in the field :)
My original question was "does Ascend make a TA that supports
X.121 packet transfers" and the first answer was "NO", but Kevin went
on to send some material out of the P50 X software just for reference.
He then asked me what my application was (which I provided). I'm
just following along... :)
At 06:20 AM 9/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Sorry but the Pipeline isn't a TA. We have other customers doing this by
>opening a TCP connection from the PC to the Pipeline and scripting the X.3
>pad commands.
>
>
>At 07:30 PM 9/21/98 -0500, John Coy (anc.net) wrote:
>>My application is to process credit cards using CompuServ's VPL
>>transaction service. In their white paper, it describes:
>>
>>The customer will order an ISDN from their local LEC. When
>>ordering an ISDN line the following requirements must be met:
>>
>>1) The ISDN line must support D-channel packet interworking
>>2) The local ISDN switch must be connected to the PDN
>>3) The PDN must recognize the CNS DNIC (Data Network Identifier Code)
>> of 3132 and route to the CNS gateway(s) to the PDN. The full
>> X.121 address of the transaction gateway is typically
>> 31329999999600
>>
>>The paper goes on to describe an Omnilink (ADAK) terminal adapter which
>>supports this feature. I was curious if Ascend makes a product
>>that can do this too (but it needed to be a TA, not a router because
>>of my software application).
>>
>>My software application is ICVERIFY running on an SCO Unix machine.
>>It communicates with the TA through the computer's serial interface
>>(obviously). I am still researching what piece of middleware I need to
>>run from ICVERIFY to the TA. Omnilink made mention of a X.28? PAD
>>(packet assembler disassembler)? That's where I get lost...
>>
>>Hope that helps. If anyone has any insight on this I'd greatly
>>appreciate it!
>>
>>
>>At 04:59 PM 9/16/98 -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote:
>>>I'm beginning to see where this is all going, and I think that my answers
>>>(although accurate) may be misleading. What is/are the specific
applications
>>>that you are looking to support with this feature?
>>>
>>>At 02:36 PM 9/16/98 , Kevin A Smith wrote:
>>>>Yes. That's where the X.121 protocol comes into play.
>>>>
>>>>At 02:19 PM 9/16/98 , Jason Nealis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>Does it due x.25 across the d-channel though? I believe the Cisco
>>>>>770 series does it.
>>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Kevin A Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> At 09:03 AM 9/16/98 , John Coy (anc.net) wrote:
>>>>>> >Does Ascend make a terminal adapter that supports
>>>>>> >X.121 packet services across the D-channel?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not a TA, but the Pipeline 50/75/85 all support it in the
>>>>>> X.25 loads.
>>
>>
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