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To: Cliff Smith who wrote (697)	3/24/1999 3:31:00 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1827

Cliff, Thank you for your response. I did visitt www.spirit32.com but was unable to find the information that I was looking for. I appreciate your offer to have your VP of tech available to me. I understand that the infrastructure is being built out at a tremendous rate, however this is not the real issue that I was concerned with. There are some inherent limitations to the amount of delay that the human ear (and brain) is willing to tolerate before communications become strained to the point of requiring CB radio style communication (e.g. "Hi, This is Jorj...over""Hi Jorj, this is Cliff....Over"). Right now the internet has all kinds of delays and delay variation which would make true quality internet telephony an unrealistic expectation. This is really a Quality of Service issue when it comes to the internet (voice packets would get no more priority than data packets). Fiber, satellite and processor advances would do little to alleviate these issues. If however, we are talking about IP telephony (different than "internet telephony") then many of these issue go away if you have a network that has adequate Quality of Service differentiation. I do agree that much of the technology that is currently being developed and deployed will affect our lives in more ways than can be imagined. But I am also very aware of the hurdles that have to be overcome to get there. I will send my questions to Alex, but wanted to clarify the issues as I saw them. Thanks, JXM

To: Cliff Smith who wrote (697)	3/24/1999 7:17:00 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1827

Cliff: What you and your insider buddies fail to realize or comment on: Most of the opposition you find on SI comes from good people that have been hurt or seen others hurt, even devastated by BB manipulation. The implications that those exposing you and your buddies must be "getting paid" is ridiculous and of course just more of the common tripe fed "suckers" that buy in to such companies. You and Greg and Chatty are the ones getting paid for posting. Not Janice, Razor, TC, TLC or any of the other good hearted folks you seem at odds with. Regards TG

To: Cliff Smith who wrote (697)	3/24/1999 7:19:00 AM
From: jjs_ynot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1827

Cliff, Do you have any employees who are not a VP or higher? Dave

To: Cliff Smith who wrote (697)	3/26/1999 2:43:00 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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