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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Aust. ISDN, was Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...)
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:12:03 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199603171012.UAA19240@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 17, 96 08:42:39 pm
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> > > to be "approved", including the software.  ie: developing the software
> > > yourself is completely out of the question here.

[ ... ]

> > > you and the other users down with it.  Result: they dont *dare* let users
> > > beat them up via custom software.
> > 
> > So buy hardware from the US.  It's not like we can install it in
> > our service areas for our own use.  8-).
> 
> Connecting such a unit makes you liable for a $12000 fine.  Not my 
> visualisation of a Good Idea 8)

I find it hard to believe that you could casually connect a US
manufactured 5ESS Electronic Switching System unless you were the
phone company... or run the AT&T ISDN software on it unless you
owned it.  Or substitute the 6Mb/S out, 4Mb/s in cards that AT&T
has that "just plug in" as replacements for the ISDN cards in a
5ESS.


If you are talking cards, well, they can be shoved through the
approval process by an enterprising importer who wants to make
his money on the margins on imported hardware.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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