North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Internet access and telco usage patterns
> Has anybody looked at the practicality of installing modem pools in each > telco switch location to grab the dialup user's traffic at the IP level > and then route it to their ISP of choice for authentication and further > routing. In other words, an ISP wouldn't buy phone lines, modems and > terminal servers, they would buy IP access ports. Southwestern Bell has described such a service they claim to offer here in Texas, though I have not seen it yet. At one point, I had heard that Ameritech and PAC*BELL were bothing looking at something like this. I never saw if they actually did it or not, though. CampusMCI is something like this, but of course there is only one ISP of choice in that case :-). -- Stan | Academ Consulting Services |internet: [email protected] Olan | For more info on academ, see this |uucp: {mcsun|amdahl}!academ!sob Barber | URL- http://www.academ.com/academ |Opinions expressed are only mine. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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