[geeks] News server access

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:25:44AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:53:44AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > 
> > Don't ISDN and T1 have the same line length limits?  I mean, these
> > geographic limitations are just being imposed due to signal loss aren't
> > they?
> 
> no, DSL is copper from CO to house.  T1 and ISDN are fibre from CO to house.

PRI* is often provisioned on fibre (although more and more often over
existing copper if available), just like E1 lines.  BRI** is provisioned
on copper almost exclusively.  At least, that's what's happening in .uk
and I'd be extremely surprised if it were radically different in .us.

* - aka ISDN-30
** - aka ISDN-2 (or ISDN-2e)

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