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[Kris Kirby]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> ISDN is copper last mile, fibre long haul, wheras DSL is never ever fibre. ever.

This explains perfectly why my little burg doesn't have DSL, but T1 and
ISDN are availible. I live about 1 mile (farthest possible cable loop)
from the fiber mux that trunks into $LOCAL_BIG_CITY. DSL, never being done
over fiber, means that a DSLAM *must* be located out here "in the
boonies".

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