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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2566)	3/13/1999 7:50:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) of 3178

Can Bellcore remain neutral (or, are they now neutral to begin with?) in the VoIP standards area? ---------------------- From Telephony Mag: Bellcore IP initiative takes first steps General requirements should begin taking shape at end of month VINCE VITTORE Bellcore's attempt to give the Internet protocol voice market some semblance of order generally is meeting enthusiasm despite the fact the group has held just one meeting. Last month 150 people representing 71 carriers and vendors attended a meeting in Orlando at which Bellcore started laying out the framework for a set of general requirements for voice networks that include both packet and circuit-switched elements. Those GRs, to be called Voice over Packet in Next-Generation Networks, will tie together many existing standards. That so many representatives showed up at all was encouraging, said Ray Ritchie, Bellcore's executive director of voice over packet engineering. Somewhat surprisingly, more than half were from the data network market. "It was a good spectrum," said Ritchie. "We described our plans in detail and got a lot of constructive criticism." Among potential changes is more vocal support of H.323. "There was a feeling that the framework architecture needed to support a distributed architecture with H.323," Ritchie added. "We got a lot of feedback that we needed to state that more clearly." However, vendors recognize that not every carrier is sold on the standard. "Since the existing protocol has its origins in videoconferencing, it has a lot of overhead that you really don't need for voice over IP," said Luv Kher, general manager of Lucent Technologies' PacketStar initiative. Lucent nonetheless supports H.323 and is leading efforts to develop a single protocol for the service layer communication. Regarding the potential for Bellcore to bring together the multiple and sometimes divergent protocol efforts, Kher said, "they have certain strengths in that area and they can be a neutral."

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