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I worked for a large UK organisation that had cut back on their dialup access but still had 50 or so modems in racks for field workers to dial in to to get thei

I worked for a large UK organisation that had cut back on their dialup access but still had 50 or so modems in racks for field workers to dial in to to get their email etc. Also some site to site links remained a dialup connection. Sorry, no fancy pictures or anything interesting, just reminded me of the time.

nixgeek 10y ago
At least a couple of the Dyn datacenters had dialup for out-of-band access back in 2013, think its all Ethernet now.
- p_l 10y ago
  Dial up lines are still available in some datacenters, had some both for services and for OOB access as recent as 2015 (San Jose)
  - setq 10y ago
    Lots of companies still have inbound dialin access for EDI stuff still running on POS systems from the 1990s. It's scary really.
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  - nixgeek 10y ago
    Yup. Lotta places will now give you 1Mbps 95% on FastE inclusive with a service contract, if you ask nicely, and are taking a cage with 20+ racks. Datacenters which ask you to pay it's usually <$50 MRC. Would guess the transition is slow because if it ain't broke why fix it, and its often a lot more than just provisioning a new circuit, you have to update process documentation, etc.
  - alex_hitchins 10y ago
    A few Datacentres I know have POTS/ISDN capability as they host a fair view VOIP companies. I assume at some point that VoIP call needs to get into the existing telephone network somehow. Also, companies would locate their telephony stack in a DC and route over ethernet just so the kit was more secure and in disaster scenarios they pick up anywhere.
  - api 10y ago
    It's also used for OOB access in high security environments in case you are getting strategically DDOSed. Makes me wonder what you'd find wardialing in 2016.
  - ccakes 10y ago
    I've used dial up via a cheap modem to a Cisco 2500 as recently as a few years ago for OOB console access. It's not gold plated but still works fine More recently though it's all been on ethernet handoff either via the DC or a local provider
- bluedino 10y ago
  AT&T installs a USR modem for the pots line to manage the routers for their bVoIP

nixgeek 10y ago

At least a couple of the Dyn datacenters had dialup for out-of-band access back in 2013, think its all Ethernet now.

p_l 10y ago
Dial up lines are still available in some datacenters, had some both for services and for OOB access as recent as 2015 (San Jose)
- setq 10y ago
  Lots of companies still have inbound dialin access for EDI stuff still running on POS systems from the 1990s. It's scary really.
  - deleted 10y ago
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- nixgeek 10y ago
  Yup. Lotta places will now give you 1Mbps 95% on FastE inclusive with a service contract, if you ask nicely, and are taking a cage with 20+ racks. Datacenters which ask you to pay it's usually <$50 MRC. Would guess the transition is slow because if it ain't broke why fix it, and its often a lot more than just provisioning a new circuit, you have to update process documentation, etc.
- alex_hitchins 10y ago
  A few Datacentres I know have POTS/ISDN capability as they host a fair view VOIP companies. I assume at some point that VoIP call needs to get into the existing telephone network somehow. Also, companies would locate their telephony stack in a DC and route over ethernet just so the kit was more secure and in disaster scenarios they pick up anywhere.
- api 10y ago
  It's also used for OOB access in high security environments in case you are getting strategically DDOSed. Makes me wonder what you'd find wardialing in 2016.
- ccakes 10y ago
  I've used dial up via a cheap modem to a Cisco 2500 as recently as a few years ago for OOB console access. It's not gold plated but still works fine More recently though it's all been on ethernet handoff either via the DC or a local provider
bluedino 10y ago
AT&T installs a USR modem for the pots line to manage the routers for their bVoIP