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

["Pete Templin" <pete.templin () texlink com>]

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