Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 15:44:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Cc: alk@Think.COM, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: hackers-digest V1 #986 Message-ID: <199603172244.PAA20086@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603170625.BAA11556@wa3ymh.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Mar 17, 96 01:25:56 am
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> The larger Internet Backbone Operators (like UUNET, who I work for) > are looking really, really hard at technologies to aggregate and > multiplex customer connections. We call this technology a Frame Relay cloud. You have *one* connection into the central offices at T1 or T3 speed, and your customers endpoint on your cloud. You pay for *one* line and amortize the cost over all your customers, your customers pay for *one* line. You need *one* interface for all of them. > The stuff we're looking for tomorrow has DS3 bearers, each carrying a > bundle of 28 T1 circuits. That is, a pair of coax right into the > termination equipment, and the T1 circuits never see twisted pair > cable; they're demuxed in the hardware.. The challange is to figure > how how to terminate hundreds of customer T1 circuits per site, and > this stuff just has to be compact (or even better, not even there in > the first place). How about one DS3 into a cloud... The T1 circuits never see your building. If your NSP goes into the same cloud, your building necer sees wires unless you want your own connection. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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