Re: difference (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:52:40 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Prof Jake Messinger shaped the electrons to say...
>On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, MegaZone wrote:
>> The MAX cannot differentiate between an ISDN data-over-voice call and an
>> analog modem call made over ISDN lines. It lumps them both together and
>> differentiates that group from pure data ISDN calls.
>Is this roughly kinda like the difference between REAL netbois versus
>netbios encapulated in TCPIP packets to make an analogy? And Im not sure
>why it would be important to differentiate.

ISDN data-over-voice is NOT an analog call. It is a kind of ISDN data
signalling. So if you route that to an digital modem it can't decode the
data.

Coversely an analog modem call *requires* a digital modem to decode it, and
routing it to the ISDN processors wouldn't work.

-MZ

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