On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> routers are I think all heading for a about £1K in price. The serial port
> TAs (I think they are a most ridiculous class of device)
why? telcos have always presented lines to customers as serial
interfaces. you buy a circuit from a telco and what do you get? a
little box with a serial interface - irrespective of the actual
technology the line uses. ISDN is no different in the case of an
external ISDN TA.
regards,
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