> Could you expand on this, why will bandwith problems become a thing
> of the past?
1. Cable modems: next year with connections 100 times faster than
ISDN at a fraction of the cost.
2. Rockwell's telephone modem already available running at 56Kb.
3. There are trials underway for low voltage telephony utilising your
ordinary power socket. Yes, you connect your telephone/modem to the
power socket on your skirting board. If you are on the national grid
as well as the other party, you are connected.
4. The Global Exchange with one number for all on this planet and
telephony through comms satellites (not next year, but who knows).
5. BT themselves are experimenting with 100Mb phone lines into the
home.
6. God only knows what else.
The moral is: if you want 400 pounds up front and 80 more every
quarter to go up in smoke on ISDN2, go ahead and get one. My 28.8
modem running at 115Kb compression isn't that much slower than ISDN.
My friend John Hearns says: ISDN, yesterday's technology tomorrow.
Well put John.
Al-Hakim
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