1 Aug
2005
1 Aug
'05
8:15 p.m.
On 7/31/05, Director <csmuseum at cse.uta.edu> wrote:
I have seen something like that. It essentially
simulates a telephone
network. You would use it to test modems, for example, or to connect
machines that had internal modems. I think I saw it being sold by Black Box.
They are not the cheapest outfit in the world. It's like buying at the local
convenience store. IIRC they were over five hundred dollars.
At Software Results, we used to make a two-port "CO Simulator" like
the one that Black Box sells. Ours was $700, and allowed you to make
simple connections, or to make "bad" connections on demand, depending
on what phone numbers you dialed. We used our own products to debug
autodialer software for our protocol engines.
Handy, but pricey.
-ethan