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To: Sly_ who wrote (23923)	1/4/1998 9:46:00 AM
From: LaVerne E. Olney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41046

John Dvorak's column in latest PC Magazine - Jan 20, 1998 (not online yet) addresses "The Talk of the Internet". Some excerpts: Don't confuse IP telephony with the various Internet phone devices that have been on the market for a few years. These devices never seemed to work, giving you broken, chopped-up speech while the promoters kept saying, "I had a connection to Japan that was perfect! You'd think the guy was in the next room." Then when you tried it yourself, the call sounded like this: "HEL-I ave you got t ugh doing today? This kind of pathetic quality isn't the case with the newer schemes, which are based on systems that link virtual PBXs from corporate site to corporate site over an efficient high-speed data link. The VPBX or IP PBX, or whatever you want to call it (one group calls it the Un-PBX), may then be hooked into the local phone system. So this makes all the calls from company headquarters in San Diego to the Tokyo branch office that are made with an on-site IP PBX into local calls. The quality may be superior to the choked-down-bankwidth analog systems of the traditional telco network. Consultant Kenneth Buy asserts that using a phone/fax IP gateway will nominally save each remote site of any business between $10,000 and $20,000 per year. Research organization Killen & Associates predicts that todays $1 billion market for Internet voice services will develop into a $60 billion market by 2002. The company further predicts that in 2002, 35 percent of all phone calls will be made over IP networks. Look for the whole scene to explode this year.