Andrew Stevens (as@comlab.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <1cmG03=Ud2Cx00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) writes:
: >One thing she pointed out about why ISDN is taking root faster overseas: it's
: >easier to build from scratch than to retrofit.  The US already has a fully-
: >installed phone network so everything has to be upgraded without interrupting
: >existing service.
: 
: This has to be one of the funniest USAnianisms I've heard in a good
: long while.   As if *any* industrialised country didn't already
: have a fully-installed phone network.  Chortle.

Well this might apply to Germany, in the Easten part of the country
the only modern telephone equiptment was used by the secret police.

: 
: I guess its really a polite way of explaining the problems for ISDN
: connectivity caused by AT&T's early standardisation on multiples-of-56Kbps 
: digital switching technology wheras the CCITT-following ``rest of the world'' 
: went for multiples-of-64Kbps (which of course fits ISDN B channels better).

Ah this explains the American standard of bundling 24 64k channels for
a primary rate.

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