alex@ames.arc.nasa.gov> (08/15/90)
ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen) writes: >I called the AccessLogic Technologies ANI number from a University of >Toronto number (416-978-7xxx), and was told that I was calling from >716-852-4200, which is a Buffalo, N.Y., number. I assume the >University of Toronto centrex routed the call through a tieline to >Buffalo. W&A sells SwitchView, a switch management product for SL-1s that runs on XENIX. When we were training in Waterloo, it was mentioned at length (in the LCR and trunk section of our classes) that many Canadian companies lease a lot of lines into Buffalo, because even for intra-province calls, it's cheaper to dial inbound from NY than north of the border! Aren't tariffs a wonderful thing? I'm sworn to secrecy to NOT tell about the volume of 100 milliWatt laser connections between Windsor and Detroit used to bypass the large cross-border tariffs, too. Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs, others ...elroy!grian!alex; BIX: alex; voice: (818) 791-7979 fax: (818) 794-2297 bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 24/12/3