[ILUG] New technology/ maybe OT

[silvan]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Niall O Broin" <niall at magicgoeshere.com>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] New technology/ maybe OT


> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:52:55PM -0000, silvan wrote:
>
> > As you might know the German ISDN is fibre rather than Copper high-
speed
> > ISDN as it is in use here.
>
> What do you mean by that exactly ? ISDN to the subscribers premises is
over
> an ordinary copper pair.
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I'm talking about Eircom version of Highspeed (copper), which they call
ISDN.
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> If you have fibre to your premises I think you
> might like to have a tad mode than 2B+D :-)
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don't know what that is.
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> Well, the rate of change of technology is such that this is always true.
> However, if tomorrow Eircom's entire backbone changed to WDM over multi
mode
> fibre, it wouldn't make a brown bit of difference to Joe Ordinary Punter.
> Niall
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That is just it!
Silvan