From owner-freebsd-isdn Fri Mar 5 14: 9:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from ixori.demon.nl (ixori.demon.nl [195.11.248.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493CC15077 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:09:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bart@ixori.demon.nl) Received: from localhost.ixori.demon.nl (localhost.ixori.demon.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ixori.demon.nl (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA10700; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:13:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bart@ixori.demon.nl) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:13:09 +0100 (CET) From: Bart van Leeuwen To: Barry Scott Cc: Freebsd-Isdn Subject: RE: urgh?? In-Reply-To: <000001be6752$3aa2a770$060110ac@barrynt.private> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Barry Scott wrote: > I checked with the folks at work today about circuit bandwidth. > (I'm working at Nortel Networks for Public Carrier networks at > the moment) > > The only place that they know of where a circuit is not full bandwidth > is on satellite links where compression is used. > > They also think its odd that calls are being dropped. The switching cost > is at call set-up time and call disconnect time - not during a call. > The only event that might lost you a call is if a part of the equipment > failed. Not all calls survive the fail over in a fault tolerant box. > > Barry Hmm. that actually happens at times on the interconnection between kpn and other ld carriers in the Netherlands it seems. (have this kind of disconnects every now and then when using a connection that has to be switched to enertel, after which there is usually a problem reported with the switching between the 2 networks. ) Bart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message