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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
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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.