[17549] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sprint's New ION products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Thu Jun 4 17:03:07 1998
In-Reply-To: <199806041337.JAA02768@rehost.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 16:41:56 -0400
To: bret@rehost.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
At 9:37 AM -0400 6/4/98, Bret McDanel wrote:
>I dont think that is what was implied off their web page press release
>(really easy to find, goto their page, goto press releases it should be the
>first one or two :)
>
>They said that they would provide online access, multiple voice calls,
>faxes, etc at the same time on an existing telephone line (I read 'an
>existing telephone line' to be a pair of wires, however they may be using 2
>pair since most houses are wired with that)..
>
>But you are supposed to get everything at the same time on the same wire..
>Cable modems for the last mile wouldnt allow this.. xDSL wouldnt allow
>this, at least not in its present implementation..
>
>
>I think the marketing guys made a promise or two that they cannot yet
>deliver (however the article did say that there were a few new patents on
>this technology, which means that its new and buggy more than likely :)
No, I think they mean H.323 (voice over IP). Then you just need a box at
the customer end to split out the voice packets to a telephone, and a phone
switch that can send voice calls to IP.
--Dean
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