Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net>]

Whoa. Gandalf.

I worked on one of those once and it was craaaaay-zee. Customer bought 
one, and I had to get it to interoperate with an Ascend 400. It took a 
lot of fiddle-farting, but I did eventually get it to work.

Fun times.


On 1/27/20 8:00 PM, Jamie Bowden via NANOG wrote:
> That was the other half of going to Extended Super Frame.  Lyle talked about AMI going away below, but didn't mention 
> what replaced it (Binary 8bit Zero Substitution for the kids on the list).
>
> I don't know about the other ILECs out there, but I don't know if Verizon will even provision a T1 anymore.  I know you can still get a PRI 
> (that's how our phone systems interface with the PSTN), but if we needed a CT1 instead, I don't know that they'd be able (willing) to 
> deliver it.  I know you can't get a BRI.  We moved offices a few years ago and we basically lost the ability to use our STEs for anything but voice 
> as we couldn't get BRIs delivered to the new space.
>
> Speaking of ISDN, I had equipment that would support 56k ISDN, but never saw it provisioned (was that Switch56?  Or am I 
> mixing up FR and ISDN?).  All of the ISDN circuits I dealt with were standard 2B+D (BRI), or 23B+D (PRI).  I think the 
> oldest (and weirdest) piece of gear I personally worked on was a Gandalf ISDN router that was supporting a US Navy site to 
> site connection.  Which makes me a newcomer to The Internet compared to a lot of people on this list, I'm sure.