Oh good god. Can your personal identity be this fragile? Must there always be a contest for which you annoyingly wave cheaply made pom poms? Do you know anything about communications at all? And before you run your mouth, I have planned, built, and managed comm systems in America, Asia, and Europe. And by comm systems I mean switchboards, radios, and satellites.
The average user in continental Europe and just about all of Germany gains access to the world through the
ISDN. The connection speed can connect at speeds up to 128 Kbps. ISDN is expensive and it is hard to establish connections, but once established it is reliable. But this connection speed is slow when we consider that any connection to the customer of 256 kbit/s or greater is more concisely considered broadband Internet. This is why ISDN is not saturated throughout the US as it is in Europe. In fact, the running joke around the world about ISDN is that it stands for "It Still Does Nothing" or "I Still Don't Know." ISDN peaked in the United States in the 1990s prior to the availability of DSL and cable modem technologies. Japan also made the leap from the German invented ISDN into a faster greater world.
Now, if you wish to boast about basic E1 as compared to the North American and Japanese basic standard T1, then you have a tiny stage. Of course, now we are talking about data rates....not connection speeds. The basic T1 enjoys speeds of 1.544Mbps with 24 channels (with robbed bit techonlogy; meaning full payload.) The basic E1 enjoys speeds of 2.048Mbps with 32 channels (two are stripped for over head and signaling leaving 30 for payload). Oh, but this is the basic. Of course, practical application has us dealing with T3s (44.736Mbps) in America now while Europe deals in E3s (34.368Mbps).
And we can talk about the next technology, which is VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephone systems. Something American and Japan have been heading into very fast. In fact, the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army has replaced just about all of the old TRI-TAC equipment with REDCOM/VX systems. The reason we have to maintain a small inventory of TRI-TAC gear is because European forces within NATO are still catching up to this technology. And while European forces are catching up to using Commercial Circuit Switches and the use of POTS phones, American forces are already forcing our fleet into VOIP.
But the American military taps into Europe's ISDN sometimes in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purposes of VTC. Other than that, we utilize the DISN.
Do explain how that is achieved...
