levin@bbn.com (Joel B. Levin) (12/31/90)
rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) wrote in TELECOM Digest Volume 10 Issue 895: >On a completely unrelated subject -- in the mux room of our local CO >there are three BBN C-30s sitting in one corner. Any idea what they >might be doing? Did BBN have a clearance sale when the Arpanet went >out of business? Are my phone calls being routed by IMPs? No. It is well known that BBN packet switches are used for the Defense Data Network, which includes Milnet and what used to be Arpanet among other things. But BBN has also for a long time sold wide area networks to other government and commercial entities around the world. Michigan Bell's public X.25 packet switched network offering is built on BBN's C/30 and C/300 switches. JBL nets: levin@bbn.com | BBN Communications or: ...!bbn!levin | M/S 20/7A POTS: +1 617 873 3463 | 150 Cambridge Park Drive or: +1 603 880 1611 | Cambridge, MA 02140