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As a small clarification, when you say IP, do you mean over the public internet, or on a private IP network? I'm going to guess the latter, but thought I'd ask... -C On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > At 01:11 PM 9/5/2001 -0700, Sean Donelan wrote: > > >Since there is very little "unique" network equipment in > >the world now, just about everyone buys equipment from the > >same vendors. So the question is, Can we learn anything from > >Citibank's experience. Is there anything about their continuing > >problems which may be used to improve general network reliability? > > I've set up a few ATMs. I have used DSLw+ & STUN on 25xx ciscos and > FRADs. I have also seen modems used. The machines themselves all ran OS2, > but some banks were talking about moving to NT (this was before Win2K). > > When they used IP, they did use cisco, but they did not all use IP. That > said, I did most of this many years ago (remember - ianai :), and the > "newer" stuff was almost all IP. It would not surprise me if the majority > of contemporary ATMs use IP. > > It would also not surprise me if Citibank has a lot of old ATMs that use > 4.8Kbps modems. > > > >I tried to find out some information from Citibank's web site > >about the issue, but I didn't see anything. > > Somehow I think they would be extremely reluctant to tell anyone what they > use inside their ATMs.... > > -- > TTFN, > patrick >
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