Re: FR versus ISDN

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Fri, 30 May 1997 10:22:56 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Charles Scott wrote:

> > OOh that is a bad way to do it because bitsmurfers convert to analog and
> > you loose about 20%.
>
> Which is why we're using 230K.
>

Yah but even so, you are loosing at lesat 15% of your POTENTIAL. I have
some numbers to prove it.

> This was obviously a price issue. We upgraded the link from a 56K
> dedicated to the two ISDN FX lines. This give us 256K throughput at what

Are you saying FX as in foreign exchange?

> amounts to about 1/2 the cost of a dedicated 256K circuit and it used the
> existing PortMaster's at both ends. Excluding cost, my preference would
> be a T-1 to each POP, but somehow price does play into all this.

Yes price is an issue.

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