On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:06:38 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote:
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> Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:[color=green]
>> That was the sort of thing I was thinking of: after all, I imagine
>> Sipgate don't have a big bank of analogue lines plugged into thousands
>> of ATAs. They'll have an E3 or STM-1 feeding into a box with an
>> Ethernet port on the[/color]
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> Well, probably more like an E1 per box... I was getting myself confused
> between the quantity of numbers they issue (lots) and the quantity of
> incoming lines (much smaller).[/color]

I wouldn't go that far. I'd wager they get their incoming calls delivered
over IP by whoever they get their numbers from [eg Magrathea or Gamma].

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