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Can ISDN D channel be used ?

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  • 21-07-2002 12:07am
    #1
    oisin
    Registered Users Posts: 239 ✭✭


    I have Eircom ISDN, in some countries the D channel can be used as a 24/7 16k download, for example always on email downloading. I've asked Eircom but nobody knows what I'm talking about. I suspect, knowing Eircom, that its disabled here.

    Does ne1 know if it works here and if so how can it be used ?

    Thanks


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    #2
    SkepticOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    No, it is not in use in Ireland.


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    ando
    Registered Users Posts: 5,396 ✭✭✭ando


    eircom did have plans to introduce it in september last year. I dunno if its available now or not, but I'm 100% sure they did have plans to launch a service like your describing.


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    oisin
    Registered Users Posts: 239 ✭✭oisin


    Thanks guys, I'll try Eircom again.


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    crawler
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭crawler


    Nope you cant use the D channel here. To open the D channel Eircom would need to provide a gateway from the D channel to their IP network ( such as their Frame Relay/ATM backbones) , as such they have never done this , or more to the point is has never been "productised" - the business case would never stack up anyway ( now where have we hard this before!!??). BT and the likes of France Telecom offer it.

    Not too sure how good it is anyway & takeup seems pretty low where it is offered.


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    ozpass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭ozpass


    My experiences of the D channel were with certain business ISP's in the UK. The scenario came into effect when small companies wanted to run a local mail server but the ISP's insisted on them using NAT routers. The connection wasn't always on but the ISP amil servers were configured to use the D-Channel to bring up the router's B-channel connections, and get the local mailserver to do a 'collection' using POP. Can be pretty useful then, but if you don't got it, you don't got it. Another example of Eircom grabbing failure from the jaws of success.


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