[138181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Feb 28 18:59:18 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:59:18 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201102282335.p1SNZNDZ065306@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/28/2011 15:35, Joe Greco wrote:
>
> There may be no compelling reason to do so, at least. However, digital
> gear offers benefits, and some people want them. Others, like me, live
> in bad RF environments where POTS picks up too much noise unless you
> very carefully select your gear and shield your cables. Further, the
> digital phones support other features, such as the ability to manage
> multiple calls seamlessly, present Caller-ID reliably (even while you
> are on another call), etc.
>
ISDN would have fit the bill nicely as a digital home phone line.
However, it never became popular in the US. I once read on Wikipedia
that it was popular in Germany.
~Seth
