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Subject: Re: ISDN: "modem" or board? (Was: Microsoft "Get ISDN"?)
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 10:25:13 MET
From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
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>> Of course, it would be really nice if you waited Teles out so you
>> could test the ISDN stuff in the US :)
>
>: -)  I'm willing if they are!

Why don't you just contact them and ask them what the difference is.
If, as I suspect, it's just the CAPI, you can use the German versions
just as easily, since, as Gary says, we don't use any steenkin' CAPI.

Does your Telco supply DSS1?

>> It's not a matter of the Teles cards not supporting it. They can handle
>> 2 B-channels simultaneously w/o any problem. It's hacking it into
>> the kernel. What do we use as the protocol ? MPP ? BACP (unbelievably
>> ugly !) ? Home-made ?
>
> Everyone from Motorola to ADTRAN seems to go the "home made" route, so..

How come they can work together?  Or is this an incorrect assumption
on my part?

Greg