HELP, Please let's all go back to square one:
A technical regulations is a specification with which compliance is mandatory by law. A standard is a specification with which compliance is not mandated by any level of government. There are masses of standards for things that are not regulated in America, certainly for transmit levels on leased lines, believe you me. It is the very strength of our system that we do not need government regulation to produce goods that work and work well. We certainly do need to agree on standards for those excellent products, or you wouldn't be able to call across the street on two tin cans and a piece of string. Your biased observer, Vic Boersma "I haven't designed a LL modem for some time, but do believe they are not regulated. As a consequence there are no longer any standards. Simply because Leased Lines modems are not used for dial-up application or pass through the switching gear at at the CO. The manufacturer of the modem at each end of the line determines the modem specs and LL provider usually specfies the maximum transmit level. Simply put there are no standards in the U.S."
