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To: Cliff Smith who wrote (697)3/26/1999 2:43:00 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (1) of 1827
 
Cliff,
Would you mind forwarding this on to Alex.

Questions about Mariah, Starburst, Content Based Routing (CBR) and Content Based Delivery (CBD).

1. Does Mariah Communications develop and manufacture the Mariah and Starburst Gateways? If yes, do you market them to other companies?

2. Is the Mariah Communications business model to both manufacture the IP telephony equipment AND provide the telephony services?

3. The www.spirit32.com website clearly states that the concept is internet telephony and that your network connection is a 10Mb line. You did state that it was in actuality IP telephony not the "internet". However this implies that you are connecting to an existing IP infrastructure. Who is your IP network service provider?

4. To avoid the long distance charges in the phone-to-internet-to-phone scenario that you give, it would imply that a gateway exists locally to both the originator and recipient of the call. This would further imply that there are limits to which LATAs can both originate and recieve calls (basically supported calling areas). Can you tell me what the calling area limitations are? or what the roll out plans are?

5. What you describe in the phone-to-internet-to-phone is called 2-stage dialing. What equipment are you using to facilitate this as well as collect the billing information?

6. What type of signaling are your gateways using to the PSTN.

7. In the MRC company desription you mention that you have major telephone switching equipment. Are these Class 5 switches?

8. For the PC to PC calls you list the following:
1. A customer simply opens up Microsoft NetMeeting or own custom program (while connected to the Internet) and enters in the phone number of the party they would like to call.

2.Then call is then sent to the receiving party's computer and the call is connected.

If the customer provides the telephony user agent and there is no involvement of the Mariah or Starburst Gateways, where exactly are your services or products involved?

9. As far as CBR and CBD are concerned, wouldn't the entire infrastructure need to understand these QoS parameters in order for it to be effective over the internet.

That should be enough to start with.

Thanks,
JXM
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