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Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Thu Mar 3 05:06:15 2005

In-Reply-To: <20050302174156.19749.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:07:34 +0000
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> Vonage style VoIP is unflatteringly but
> accurately called parasitic, it sits on top of someone else's network
> connection without supporting that connection at all, competing with
> any other IP traffic on the connection, with traffic going back to a
> switch wherever the VoIP company is.

One person's definition of parasitic is another
person's definition of unbundled services.

--Michael Dillon


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