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Article: Packet muxing: low-cost strategy links retail sites.
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- February 1, 1990
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PACKET MUXING
Despite its size, retail has traditionally lagged behind other industries in applying telecomm technology.
Cost-management pressures and thin operating margins have caused retail-network managers to scrutinize new investments carefully.
Most regional retailers have relied on low-speed leased analog lines and modems to handle voice and data between stores and between headquarters and central DP centers.
As traffic volume has expanded, the cost of leasing additional circuits has often absorbed a big part of the budget increases.
But now many midsize chains use integrated packet multiplexing to expand the ...