Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 larry 2/4/84; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxj!mhuxi!mhuxh!hlhop!hlexa!pcl From: pcl@hlexa.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten) Newsgroups: att.compete,net.dcom Subject: Northern Telecom has CSDC similar to AT&T's Message-ID: <1653@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 02:27:47 EST Article-I.D.: hlexa.1653 Posted: Thu Mar 22 02:27:47 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 07:29:16 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 21 From: notes@hlexa.UUCP Newsgroups: pr.presstp NORTHERN TELECOM'S PLAN TO CHILL AT&T'S NEW CSDC, Data Communications, March 1984, p. 45. Northern Telecom Inc. (NTI) has developed a service similar to AT&T's Circuit Switched Digital Capacity (CSDC) and, like AT&T, wants to offer it through the BOCs. AT&T had recently announced its plans to offer the first Intergrated Services Digital Network-like service in the U.S. via the BOCs, but NTI hopes to beat AT&T to the market. NTI's new capability, to be available to BOCs that purchase its local telco switch, the DMS-100, will permit the BOCs to offer users a dial-up full-duplex 56-kbit/s digital data service using the same single-wire-pair local loop that carries voice traffic. NTI's competitive edge may be that it intends to offer compatible features on its private PBX products.