Re: Digital Modems
alexm@agetech.net
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:20:24 -0400
Jake (not the snake) Messinger wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Mury Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> > Livingston has these new "digital modems" for the PM3. This raises three
> > questions for me.
> >
> > 1) Why doesn't Cisco, USR, and Asend use them too, or do they? As far as
> > I've heard they don't.
>
> Ascend uses a digital modem card. 8 modems on one card. They can do 128k
> isdn or analog 28800.
>
> >
> > 2) Are there other digital modems?
> >
> > 3) Are there any drawbacks doing things the new Livingston way? Do you
> > lose anything with the digital modems that you wouldn't with analog modems?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Mury
> > GoldenGate Internet Services
> >
>
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> (Don't steal my squigglies)
Not just that, the Ascend are also supposedly can also do frame relay. I
also like the concept of an Ascend connecting to an Ascend considering
most of the ISDN routers are Ascend in the first place.
Do these "DIGITAL MODEMS" do both analog and ISDN, or how does that
work.