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From: budden@tetra.NOSC.MIL (Ray A. Buddenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Packet voice
Message-ID: <664@tetra.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 11 Mar 88 00:47:10 GMT
References: <963@thumper.bellcore.com> <8803091800.24473@tonto.cc.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: budden@tetra.nosc.mil.UUCP (Rex A. Buddenberg)
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With the advent of FDDI and 100 mbit capacities, there is some increase
in interest in digital voice.  The real problem has to do with latency
in the network -- if you aren't down to a couple milliseconds, things
don't come out very practically.

I know a couple companies that are working on integrating voice along
with data (and video) on FDDI based fiber nets toped with lightweight
transport protocols.

The applications are shipboard LANs rather than household though.
You aren't yet in the area where you can compete with the phone yet.

Rex Buddenberg