pcl@hlexa.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten) (03/22/84)
From: notes@hlexa.UUCP Newsgroups: pr.presstp NORTHERN TELECOM'S PLAN TO CHILL AT&T'S NEW CSDC, Data Communications, March 1984, p. 45. Northern Telecom Inc. (NTI) has developed a service similar to AT&T's Circuit Switched Digital Capacity (CSDC) and, like AT&T, wants to offer it through the BOCs. AT&T had recently announced its plans to offer the first Intergrated Services Digital Network-like service in the U.S. via the BOCs, but NTI hopes to beat AT&T to the market. NTI's new capability, to be available to BOCs that purchase its local telco switch, the DMS-100, will permit the BOCs to offer users a dial-up full-duplex 56-kbit/s digital data service using the same single-wire-pair local loop that carries voice traffic. NTI's competitive edge may be that it intends to offer compatible features on its private PBX products.