patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to fiberguy
Re: Build it and they will come...
said by fiberguy  :I think a national broadband plan would also include the eventual near elimination of the dial up call centers turning them, essentially, into the dot matrix printer. (they'll be there, but really a specialty purpose) Won't work. Running a dialup ISP is practically free. You get an ATM, T1, or SONET line from the telco, with multiple extensions/trunk lines (1 or more phone numbers, multiple incoming simultanous calls). Inside the circuit switches frames is your PPP data. Decode that (done with a router or in software), put on backbone, your done.
No ISP has banks of analog dialup modems anymore. You wouldn't have 56K if the ISP used analog modems. The POTS Digitalizer at your CO that terminates your copper loop is the modem effectivly, and its on a really really long serial port line to the ISP. Most of the dialup ISPs cost is email, newsgroups, webhosting, and tech support. |
