From owner-freebsd-net Mon May 1 23:36: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A6C37B8CD for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 23:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA28252; Tue, 2 May 2000 00:35:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <390E777D.FBBFBC6D@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 00:36:45 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Ryan Thompson , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Max T1. Throughput? References: <3908C23B.177C942D@softweyr.com> <20000427184630.B40387@jade.chc-chimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:42:03PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > You should also note that DSL and T1 have nothing to do with each other. > > Ameritech recently delivered a DS-1 to a friend of mine in the form of DSL > to his location and a device to give a ds-1 signal through the DSL. > > TELCO ----DSL---> MAGIC-DEVICE ---DS-1--> DS1 equipment > > The magic device was actually at his house. That magic device would be a... switch! I can show you how to do the same with Frame Relay, ATM of any flavor, Ethernet at 10/100/1000 mbps, Token Ring at 4 and 16 mbps, FDDI, CDDI, and just about anything else you'd care to name, all in the same chassis. Repeat after me: DSL is ATM over copper wire. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing magic. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message