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GTE has been promoting this model for several years now. They seem to be getting closer to something reasonable and I guess several ISP's are considering and/or doing it. Ed On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Michael Dillon wrote: > > There is an interesting column in PC Mag > http://www.pcmag.com/issues/1513/pcmg0017.htm > regarding "Will the Internet Crash" but Machrone understands the > technology better than to do a chicken little imitation. > > Anyway, he has an anecdote about what PC Mag's BBS did to telco usage > patterns with about 100 dialup lines in use nationally. I know that Bell > Canada in the toronto area of Canada and BC Tel in Vancouver have also run > into problems caused by Internet dialup usage patterns that lead BC-Tel to > drop selling Centrex to ISP's and Bell Canada to attempt putting ISP's > into a higher tariff category. I suppose other telcos are running into > similar capacity problems. > > Anyway, since some of the core providers in North America are telcos > (Sprint, MCI) and since all the other ones work rather closely with the > telcos for obvious reasons, I have a question. > > 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. > > I have heard of something like this (I think) going on in Britain where > Demon Internet services has Energis providing their dialin lines via > something called the Virtual POP in which Demon has no equipment located > outside their NOC and has the ability to switch capacity from location to > location as load patterns change. Of course, this is probably not working > at the IP level but simply dealing with routing of digitized switched > audio calls. > > Michael Dillon ISP & Internet Consulting > Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 > http://www.memra.com E-mail: [email protected] > > Ed Morin Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505 (voice) Professional Internet Services [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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