Subj : R50 Host :-)
To   : mark lewis
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Dec 03 2007 02:46 pm

  Re: R50 Host :-)
  By: mark lewis to Benny Pedersen on Mon Oct 29 2007 11:34 am

 > 
 >  ml> there was as much or more of a market for 64k dual channel ISDN in
 >  ml> the US as anywhere else in the world... too bad the US teleco bean
 >  ml> counters are/were so st00pid 8?
 > 
 >  BP> dont know why there just was 56Kbit in us, in rest of the world it
 >  BP> have always being 64bit pr channel,
 > 
 > the US had both... it just depended on who your teleco was... they way they 
 > 56k is/was quite simple, too... it is called "bit-robbing"... they were
 > stealing one bit for every X many so they could build another connection "fo
 > free"... we saw this bit-robbing being done on regular POTS lines, too... so
 > setups would never connect better then 9600 over their POTS lines, no matter
 > how good the lines were or how good their modem was... why? bit-robbing... t
 > were encoding everything in 7 bits which was redusing the max connect rate..
 > that 8th bit? well, with 7 calls going, those 7 8th bits from each gave the
 > telco another call path that was 7 bits wide and they got it for free...

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