Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:22:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Vinay Bannai <vinay@agni.nuko.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Distance Service offered by ISPs Message-ID: <199708292122.OAA10012@agni.nuko.com>
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According to Mike HAGGAG: > Web Phone has been around for quite a while now. I recently read something > about an alliance between AT&T, Dialogic and VocalTec (makers of Web Phone) > to develop phone services using the Internet. > > Imagine any individual anywhere in the world being able to lift his phone's > handset at phone, place a LOCAL call to his local ISP, enter a code (or a > PIN), then dial a long distance call (to next city or around the world). > The call would be routed over the Internet to another ISP in the > destination city who would route the call to the person being called. All > for no cost to either the caller or the callee other than their monthly fee > to their respective ISPs. > > Now imagine this being setup in an organized way and almost overnight, ISPs > all over the world are breaking phone companies' monopolies for good. > > Maybe that's whay phone companies (AT&T, Sprint, MCI etc...) got on the > Internet access providing game so quickly... they saw this coming... > > I'd like to get some feedback from y'all on this since I despise phone > companies' monopolies and I've toying with the idea of starting a ISP > myself... > > Regards Eventhough your contempt of the telephone companies is shared, I don't know if this is the right mailing list to get feeback. You might want to try the freebsd-isp mailing list. Just to give you my feedback, I don't think it is possible (at this time) to do what you have suggested. Voice and multimedia traffic is time critical unlike the data traffic. So if the data does not arrive in time, it might as well not arrive at all. To achieve this you need to reasonable round trip delays and QoS over the wide area networks. I think the round trip delay should be under 400ms to avoid having annoying echos apart from having congestion free path.. Vinay
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