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To: D. Newberry who wrote (5276)9/17/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: MikeM54321  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
"As for your voice calls, you have a 24x7 connection to the central office switch at all times, so your telephone operates the same whether you are connected to a modem or not."

D. Newberry,
Thanks for your reply and welcome to the Last Mile. Can you clear up one more thing for me.

Doesn't the twisted copper pair run into the DSLAM line card from the customer side and out the back comes two sets of wires. One goes to a traditional voice circuit-switch, and the other goes to a data packet switch? In other words, I thought this was precisely where the data traffic was separated from the voice traffic. This allows the very expensive voice switch to be freed up from long winded data sessions.

If this is correct, doesn't this mean that the DSLAM line card will be tied up by a DSL user who is online, when another neighborhood DSL user simply wants to make a voice call?

The reason I'm asking this is because I don't see that the telco can save much money by disconnecting a DSL user when he is not using the service. Because, as we know, data users tend to tie up the line for something like 10-20 times longer than a voice call. If this is the case, that means the telco has to buy so much hardware anyway that they might as well offer a, one-to-one, always on connection when all is said and done.
Thanks,
MikeM(From Florida)

PS This is all leading somewhere, but first I want to make sure I'm on the right track.
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