[AusNOG] dial-up modem with 48v DC power option?

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

Charles Wyble wrote:
> So I'm not quite sure what good a modem would do.
>
A PSTN line is most likely to work in even trying circumstances - in a 
lot of locations you need PSTN to get DSL anyway.   If you're at a point 
where you've lost all normal connectivity to a POP then you don't want 
to have to worry about the state of a DSL line - you want to be able to 
dial in, work out if it's hardware or a provider issue, maybe use your 
power systems to reboot equipment etc.  Given that all our gear is 
manageable over 9600bps serial connections - why add the complexity of 
DSL? 

MMC