Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

[Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven () cb3rob net>]

doesn't most of SMS (the crap on GSM's) also run on x.25?

i recall some customer of mine talking X.25 to a telco to get their 
messages to the phones anyway.

same for one of our banks not so very long ago...


On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:

> > Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in operation?  I had some 
> > peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert conversion, and hear 
> > it shut down sometime in 2003-4.
>
> http://www.ram.nl/nl/aanbieder_van_mobiele_datacommunicatie/diensten/netwerkdiensten?read_more=1323735124421760482
>
> also: yep.
>
> commercial x.25 based packet radio networks, and the wired parts to keep them 
> together, are still around.
>
> (the non-commercial ones also ofcourse ;)
>
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> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Chris Boyd wrote:
>
> > On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> >
> > > And FDDI and X.25 and every single legacy protocol
> >
> > Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in operation?  I had some 
> > peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert conversion, and hear 
> > it shut down sometime in 2003-4.
> >
> > --Chris