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From: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Using the NeXT and Ethernet for real-time voice
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Date: 2 Nov 88 05:16:09 GMT
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The was some work (ongoing?) at Xerox PARC to do EtherPhone.
They basically used a 3 MBit/s ethernet as the transmission medium
and had a box less powerful than the DSP to do digitization and
transmission.  They 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

Lots of fun ahead.

Mike