> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, David Glynn wrote:
> > >> Gotta love those telcos. God help us if someone figures out how to get
> > >> voice traffic into their equipment using only 14k.
> > >They already do... 9.6k is PLENTY for voice (which is why I can't
> > >figure out ISPs aren't selling LD services on extra bandwidth).
> > Anyone doing this? Haven't heard of anyone diving into this yet.
>
> Using the Internet for a long distance carrier? There are products that
> do this, I think RealAudio is one of them. One of our clients beta tested
> one of these products at our site here, the quality was decent, but the
> connection far too unstable (what can you expect out of the Internet,
> after all?).
I investigated the possibilites of doing this at my previous employer as
it was a logical extension to their other business(fax over the Internet.)
However, as you observed the connections are very susceptible to
instability. I really don't see how any company is going to be able to
address this underlying problem. If I had to vote though, I would keep an
eye on Lucent, who is supposed to be coming out with a box to do this...
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