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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1679)	7/26/1998 5:54:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) of 12823

Frank, But it did appear that Nacchio was pretty adamant that his network was entirely IP based. But like I said, it was a confusing interview and I may have gotten this part wrong. OR, can you use voice circuit switches on an IP based network? To add further confusion, I ran across this piece by George Glider that almost directly answers my previous question. Here is what Gilder believes Qwest is doing: "Consumers will access Qwest's IP long distance service by making a local call on a normal telephone, dialing into a circuit-to-IP platform made by Viena Systems, a Newbridge Networks affiliate. Newbridge has long preened as the prime champion of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), an additional smart layer between the customer and the hardware. The Vienna platform will simply packetize the raw, 64 kbit/s signal, and send it via IP." It makes sense, but isn't the quality going to be pretty bad? It's sent as an ATM IP packet (I think that is what Gilder is saying), but I thought even using ATM, VoIP still was not ready for prime time. Did I miss something in Gilder's comment? MikeM(From Florida)

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