Jach,
<IP phone, connects directly to an IP network versus a 10BaseT connection>
nothing new here, some companies such as Unisys (Convergent) had done this type
of thing more than ten years ago for products like these. These products never got a
significant foot hold and imo, never ever will become popular compared to the
tried-and-true simple to use POT (Plain Old Telephone). Isn't that quite an analogy,
no matter what kind of new cooking technique and gadgets come along, the
tried-and-true simple frying pan (and the stew pot) is still used world-wide.
Jach, if you don't think IP telephony and data/voice convergence will be a huge win for the carriers and thier customers then you need to do more research. IP telephony will increase revenues and bring down costs for the carriers. It will also provide consumers with a single point of contact for home connectivity. That's right you call one 'carrier' and you get data, voice, and video access..perhaps even telemetry - all at speeds 10 or more times faster than a modem.
Second, I'm not sure what you're referring to with Convergent, but DSP technology and telephony algorithms were terrible 10 years ago. I was intimately involved with one of the first forays into data/voice convergence over "packet based networks" while I was at MICOM..that was 11 years ago. We had (arguably) the first data/compressed voice product on the market - and that voice quality was poor at best. Today, G.729 on a packet network is toll quality. Furthermore using G.711 over an integrated network provides Carrier TOLL quality service. So, tell me why IP telephony won't fly.
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