Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Voice-on-the-net (VON), VoIP, Internet (IP) Telephony -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill France who wrote (168)	11/20/1997 12:05:00 PM
From: Ron Kory	Respond to of 3178

Real time fax is definately the next generation technology for IP faxing and I am aware of it. I saw dctc announce some agreements last week with some Asian ISPs. Actually what may happen is that networks will use realtime fax with store and forward as a back-up. I wouldn't write off store and forward just yet. ron

To: Bill France who wrote (168)	11/20/1997 12:49:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3178

Bill, I think that it is fairly universally agreed to, by this time, that future real-time "anythings" on a par with constant-bit-rate and RSVP-like services will probably be available at some level of pricing premium. In contrast, things that can be delivered by "best effort" only, or even scheduled on a delayed delivery basis, will be priced considerably lower. In many instances, these delays may only amount to several seconds or minutes, which are more than suitable for many fax and canned voice deliveries. Isn't there an ample opportunity for some cost reduction in this case, if an organization relies heavily on fax transmission? Stated another way, why would I want to "always" pay a premium when many of the transmissions that I send are simply routine reports or standard notices that are not time sensitive? In fact, many of the faxes that take place today through fax bureaus are overnight in nature for this very reason, and they are the least demanding of all. IMO, there is a place for immediate-delivery platforms, granted, but there is also a large market for the store and forward variant for messages of many types. Frank