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From: hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison)
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Subject: Re: Xerox Etherphone experiments?
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Date: 18 Dec 89 15:04:00 GMT
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santi@ixos.UUCP (Michael Santifaller) writes:


>	There is this book with the proceedings of a LAN conference,
>	its title is "Local Area Networks" I believe, and the editor
>	is Tony West from Sun, who was with IBM in Geneva, then.
>	It has been published in the early '80. The book contains several
>	articles about LANs, obviously, including one by Shoch (??) about
>	an experiment with voice over Ethernet (3MB Ethernet at that time).
>	The whole article sounded very interesting and encouraging,
>	since I had never believed that Ethernet was suitable for
>	voice at all. 

As part of our commercial software development, we implemented a
voice capability in our BBN/Slate software package which makes use
of a voice server in an IBM PC, accessed over the ethernet via
the Sun PC-NFS TCP/IP toolkit.

The voice server uses about 32kbs, and so far, performance does not
seem to be a problem, even on a loaded network.

Herb Lison