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RE: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

  • From: Pete Templin
  • Date: Mon Oct 13 17:55:41 2003 
That suggests that it's an ASL (Analog Subscriber Line)...  

Pete Templin
Senior Staff Engineer
TexLink Communications
(210) 892-4183
pete.templin@texlink.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley Dunn [mailto:bradley@dunn.org]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 4:05 PM
To: Christopher X. Candreva; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue


Christopher X. Candreva wrote:

> I've seen this in the press repeatedly and it drives me almost as nuts as
> having to call DSL access hardware a modem.

What's wrong with calling it a modem? It MOdulates and DEModulates
between a digital bitstream and an analog signal.

Bradley