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Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul G)
Sat Mar 26 14:18:46 2005

From: "Paul G" <paul@rusko.us>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:11:39 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Gauthier" <eric@roxanne.org>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors


> Hrm... Isn't a VoIP call realtively low bandwidth?  I haven't studied
> this, but Vonage's site seems to imply that the maximum data rate is
90Kbps
> (http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_article.php?article=190).  I
> typically see speeds greater than this from my web browser...  Are they
> saying that anything that might consume over 100Kbps isn't going to be
> allowed?

it's not about bandwidth, it's about pps. namely, radios don't very much
like a lot of pps ;]

-p

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paul galynin


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