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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Using the NeXT and Ethernet for real-time voice
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Date: 3 Nov 88 07:34:20 GMT
References: <10865@reed.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)

In article <10865@reed.UUCP>, mdr@reed (Mike Rutenberg) writes:
>They [Xerox PARC] claim to get pretty good performance, even with
>a decent offered load.  I suspect the NeXT box might even be an
>improvement as it:
>	uses 10MBit/s Ethernet
>	the DSP could do more compression on the data
The DSP ought to be capable of toll-quality voice compression to 16
kbit/sec, so the 10 mbps will do lots of phone calls.  Even standard
phone stuff at 64 kbps isn't that much of a drain on the ether.
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/jr
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