[78578] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Vonage service suffers outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Thu Mar 10 15:09:50 2005
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:09:20 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Bill Nash" <billn@billn.net>,
"Christian Kuhtz" <christian.kuhtz@bellsouth.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Bill Nash
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:57 PM
> To: Christian Kuhtz
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Vonage service suffers outage
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> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
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> >> I think the final nail in this coffin is the Vonage
> >> banner ad/masthead which describes them as "the
> >> broadband phone company."
> >>
> > But it's broadband! Shsssssh. It's an information=20
> service. It's IP. These
> > are not the packets you're looking for.
> >
> > ;)
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> > What all this really shows is just how outdated the=20
> regulatory framework
> > really is. Once VoIP (or whatever the application formerly=20
> known as VoIP)
> > stops looking like a PSTN emulation, this will get only=20
> more absurd than it
> > already is.
> >
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> I disagree that the regulatory framework is outdated, but=20
> instead offer=20
> that the classification of IP networks has changed as new=20
> services have=20
> arisen, and been embraced by, the consumer.
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> I don't purchase POTS service for my home. I have cable internet, and=20
> that's it. I don't even purchase cable TV service. Just a=20
> data feed. A la=20
> carte, I purchase VOIP service from whoever I want. It stops=20
> being a mere=20
> broadband information service the instant it connects to global PSTN.
It's called "Triple Play", voice, data, video.
-M<
