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Re: OT: What do they mean: T1, T3, DS-3, DS-48, OC-3, OC-48, OC-192...



On Tuesday 20 September 2005 06:40 am, Oliver Lupton wrote:
> Andy Anderson wrote:
> > I know that this is off topic, but I've been curious for a while
> > as to what, exactly, the acronyms (or designators, or whatever
> > they're properly called) in the subject line mean.  I sort of
> > have some sense of what a T1 is - a dedicated connection to the
> > Internet via some ISP that is anywhere from 128 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps
> > in bandwidth - but what does the T (or DS or OC) stand for?  Is
> > there a reference somewhere?  Google was no help at all...
> >
> > Thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light on this.
>
> Try Wikipedia rather than Google, just going to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T1 etc very often gets a good, complete
> explanation of something :)

/me starts reading the first part of Wikipedia's DS0 entry and stops 
mid-sentence, "Magic.  Got it."

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