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Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by iptel on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:54PM (#43284979)
Absolutely, when call hits local switch it can be terminated differently based on its location. Particularly pertinent for modem based services in the 90s. A single national dialup number would terminate on 100s of local pops and routing decisions would be done to keep traffic as local as possible.
Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't K... by timthorn on Friday March 07, 2025 @05:55PM (#43295695)
Internet Thruway from Nortel allowed multiple ISPs to use the same local termination hardware; If I remember the details correctly, different national numbers could be terminated on the same box, with the subsequent IP traffic routed to the correct ISP.