Re: (PM) New Lucent software

Tom Limoncelli (tal@research.bell-labs.com)
Fri, 14 May 1999 14:48:35 -0400

Doug Hardie wrote:
>
> I have a user who sent me the following:
>
> > Lucent recently announced some new software
> >which allows one to use one's phone line for access to the internet and
> >also to
> > take or make phone calls at the same time. It is however, server side
> > software, i.e. it needs to be installed by the ISP.
>
> Any ideas what he is referring to?

http://www.lucent.com/press/0598/980512.nsa.html

(I'm not a spokesperson, not am I in that part of the company, but this is what
I saw at a public demo) In other words, you get a client on your PC that pops up
a window that says, "You're getting a phone call from (full caller-id info)" and
you can click on "Let them eat static", or "Hang up my ISP and let me answer the
phone call". If you click on the second one, you call to your ISP is
disconnected, your phone starts to ring and the call comes through.

The tricky part is to get the PSTN phone switches to talk to these clients over
the internet AND do it in a way that scales AND do it fast enough that the
caller hasn't given up waiting.

--tal
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