Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 10:25:33 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Lamb.net> To: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.com>, Vinay Kumar <vinay@agni.nuko.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Information about public ATM networks Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961228102157.006c2b1c@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net>
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Pacific Bell is offering ATM too, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area
and Los Angeles.
Ulf.
At 01:02 PM 12/28/96 -0500, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>As far as I know, you would have to go directly to Sprintlink, MCI,
>Rogers, or Whatever for your ATM. The phone companies (most of them) are
>limited to regular phone lines, and digital lines (ISDN) ATM is Fiber
>Optics, and generally only the big guys provide them.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Jason A. Lixfeld
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>On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Vinay Kumar wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have been following the mailing list for more than a month. I found very
>> knowledgeable people on the mailing list. I was wondering if any you had
>> any experiences with public WAN ATM networks. Let me explain ...
>>
>> A company needs to connect several of its sites located in different
>> cities through a ATM network. Part of the ATM network (some VPI/VCI) is
>> used to connect to the Internet and the rest of the bandwidth is for
>> private use. This would primarily be used for multimedia, video stuff...
>>
>> Is it possible for a company (corporation) to get ATM connection from the
>> telephone companies? If so, what kind of support do they have?
>> Do they support SVC?
>> Do they support ATM multicasting?
>> What is the level of support provided by the telephone companies?
>> How do I get this information? ( I tried contacting PacBell but met with
>> limited success in getting them to answer the questions)
>>
>> Thanks for any responses
>>
>> Vinay Bannai
>> vinay@cs.stanford.edu
>>
>
>
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