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To: Bernie Sturr who wrote (168)	4/12/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1150

> smoke your smelling is dulling and blurring Maybe, but if you're building your dream on IP Telelphony, you may have to wait a long time. It's years off, if it ever happens, and for now iFace is a very small player among existing hardware and software and access providers -- there's almost no mention of them in a telephony context that I've seen (can anyone here point to a different story?). If -- as I guess - iFace is just reselling other people's stuff, how good could the margin be? - Charles ====== techweb.com Real IP Telephony Is Two Years Away By Madeleine Acey, TechWeb Telecommunications carriers will not be able to provide full Internet telephony for another two years, according to a British consulting company. Cambridge, England-based international telecom specialists Analysys released a report on Friday that says the architecture for carrier-scale IP networks was still missing some key elements. "Particularly, the voice gateways, end-to-end call control, quality-of-service support (except when over ATM) and network-management facilities," says the report, called "Next Generation Networks: Integrated IP Architectures." "Carrier-scale voice gateways have been announced, but have yet to ship, never mind prove themselves in real networks," said Margaret Hopkins, principal consultant at Analysys and the report's lead author.