Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

Wasn’t that CNID where PRIs ignored the flag set not to present the data?

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 15:01 <bzs () theworld com> wrote:

> On January 27, 2020 at 22:57 marka () isc org (Mark Andrews) wrote:
>  > The hardware support was 2B+D but you could definitely just use a
> single B.   56k vs 64k depended on where you where is the world and which
> style of ISDN the telco offered.
>
> FWIW bulk dial-up lines were often brought in as PRIs which were 24
> ISDN 2B+D lines on basically a T1 (1.544mbps) and then you could break
> those out to serial lines.
>
> The sort of cool thing was that you could get caller information on
> those even if the caller thought they blocked it with *69 or whatever
> it was and log it. I forget the acronym...no no, that's the usual
> caller-id this was...ummmm, DNI? Something like that.
>
> I won a court case with that data.
>
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