Comparisons

["W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>]

  In a study we are finishing we note that there are no industry
  wide standards for ISDN for compression.
  
  This means, unless you have identical equipment employing the same
  compression scheme at both ends of your ISDN line, you will get
  only raw 128K.
  
  Now take any v.34 28.8 modem, this does have a compression standardd
  and at a compression of 3:1, the through put is 86 kbps.  This
  is very close to 128.
  
  So, I suggest for the push for ISDN to be meaningful, someone
  better pay attention to standardizing compression.
  
  
  Regards,
    Curtiss
  
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