[138225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Mar 1 08:51:52 2011
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:51:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110301033231.203521fc@petrie>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Pitcock" <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
> That is the same market Vonage is now targeting in the US, basically.
> National calling in the US is basically bundled with most calling plans
> now. I'm not convinced that many people use Vonage in the US - my
> experience with it was that it was not as reliable as the VOIP
> products offered through the various broadband providers I have had.
Let us be clear: if you're getting "digital telephone" service from a
cable television provider, it is *not* "VoIP", in the usage in which
most speakers mean that term -- "Voice Over Internet" is what they should
be saying, and cable-phone isn't that; the voice traffic rides over a
separate DOCSiS channel, protected from both the Internet and CATV
traffic on the link.
So of course Vonage and other VoN products will be less rugged.
As I recall, this questionably fair competitive advantage has been
looked into by ... someone. (Cablecos won't permit competing VoIP
services to utilize this protected channel, somewhere between "generally"
and "ever".)
Cheers,
-- jra
