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

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (940)	7/9/1998 1:52:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 3178

Hello Frank, Sorry ... I couldn't help it! ;-) I had to throw it out ... but seriously I'm experimenting with some off-the-shelf technology today. I want to see if I can cut my phone cord by the end of the year. I have 802.11 wireless (from NetWave/Bay/Nortel) in my house, so that I can go anywhere with my laptop. I'm installing a spread-spectrum radio modem (150Kb) to connect from my house to my office (about 5-7 miles up the road) where I have a frame-relay T1. I just found a nice box to do my VoIP so that I could move my home phone line to the office for testing. I would no longer have a phone line at the house. I'm currently using NetMeeting and CUSee-Me regularly for video conferencing with several other engineers ... over 56Kb dial-up ... so the 150Kbs will be good enough for me (for now). Once I get my radio link up, I'll be running through a Novell Proxy/Cache, running the Netscape Web Server on NetWare ... then I've just got to get the home automation integrated ... ;-) We're in the AM Radio days ... but it is coming ... ;-) What's amazing to me is the speed with which the products that bridge IP to the "standard" phone system are showing up ... I'm doing all of this with readily available equipment. Also, per the @Home post: > Message 5126497 I now have to follow that thread also. ;-( It is actually a very good post. I have been pitching the value of a"parallel Internet" also and believe very strongly in it. People will begin to understand the valuable services that could be implemented on this architecture. Scott C. Lemon