news@morpho.UUCP (John Timlick) (10/19/89)
Hello,
I have a somewhat unusual communication need and am soliciting for
information. What we have is Host A located in City A and Host B
located in City B. City A and City B are x miles apart. Host A and
Host B need to communicate at 56 Kbps or higher. However, we have
only 9.6 Kbps phone lines available. There is no place in the RFP that
says we can't use more than one phone line so...
Question: Is there such a device which will accept a 56 Kbps data
stream, split it up over multiple lines and reassemble it on the other
end? Kind of a reverse multiplexor. See diagram below:
(9.6 Kbps)
/|--------z--------|\
/ |--------z--------| \
(56 Kbps) / |--------z--------| \ (56 Kbps)
Host A ------------< | | >-------------- Host B
\ |--------z--------| /
\ |--------z--------| /
\|--------z--------|/
I know this is not a glamorous solution but the customer has stated in
the RFP that we use 9.6 K lines if at all possible. If anyone has a
solution, a product name, manufacturer, phone number, anything at all,
I will follow up and post results back to the net if I get any
responses. Please e-mail if possible to: ...!amc-gw!morpho!jt
Thanks in advance.