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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE!
RACE 334.79-1.3%3:59 PM EST
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To: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (28512)4/10/1998 11:29:00 PM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (2) of 33268
 
Ignacio, some have rather ignorantly suggested that the Internet was some how "set up" and that it was "designed" for some specific purpose which precludes its use for voice communications. I cannot begin to express the ignorance embodied in that statement but let me point out the rather obvious fact that hundreds of thousands, soon to be millions, of people have simultaneous access to real-time audio, video and 3D animation as we speak.

The so-called Internet is nothing more than agreed upon set of communications protocols which allow networks of every conceivable design with every conceivable physical infrastructure to communicate. It's a network of networks, that's why they call it the INTER-NET. When they hit the switch on these large scale, space-based mobile communications networks, they too will become part of the Internet.

There are no inherent limitations (read: none, not one) which will or ever could preclude the wide spread adoption of audio and video communication between networks (read: over the Internet) in realtime. What precludes that for most are the copper telephone lines leading into your home or business. The very real problem of packet latency, which can and does lead to choppy audio, can be eliminated using virtual links constructed with low-latency communications protocols. The current suite of Internet protocols is by no means fixed and to suggest otherwise is only a convenient fabrication for those who do not want to hear that VOIP is going to be successful.
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