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To: Midnightsun who wrote (37617)	2/5/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: Midnightsun	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50264

An article I found in the paper "Financial Times": a different approach but with the net result of lower costs for international telephone calls.DGIV needs to get operations moving because technology is going to pass us by. IMHO "Internet telephony has been all talk and little action during the past year. But this week Networks Telephony Corporation, a California start-up, launched services that may turn internet access providers into international telephone companies in a hurry. NTC takes a radically different approach. Its "internet" phone calls will not go via the internet. Rather, it will route calls via the global networks of Infonet Services, a data communications service. The difference is that voice- or data- sent via the internet encounters arbitrary routing decisions. When data are transmitted, this does not cause problems, but voice messages are more sensitive to delays degrading the sound quality of the call. In contrast, NTC uses Infonet's "deterministic" IP network, which routes traffic on pre-determined paths. It enables NTC, for example, to choose the cheapest route by directing a phone call to a telephone operator with which it has negotiated a good price. NTC does not plan to get into the telephone business. Instead the company provides a turnkey service to ISPs to enable them to offer low-cost international telephone services. For ISPs struggling to differentiate themselves from competitors, that is an attractive proposition. For companies and individuals who make a lot of international phone calls, IP routing may be a big cost saver. The test will be whether sound quality lives up to users' expectations and whether regional ISPs are ready to take on the telephone companies on whom they themselves rely for services. However, NTC's use of a network that routes traffic according to cost or other priorities is the future. And, as NTC demonstrates, when this technology is applied to the internet, traditional telephone companies will be forced to embrace internet telephony, or will have nowhere to hide."