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To: WTC who wrote (3802)	5/20/1999 3:55:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

"I suspect AT&T may be estimating that business-grade VoIP may be 2-3 years off..." WTC, I believe AT&T said 5 years off. I wish I could say exactly who said it, but I cannot remember(I may have picked it up right from an Armstrong Q&A?). IMHO even 5 years, for widespread VoIP service, is probably overly optimistic. MikeM(From Florida)

To: WTC who wrote (3802)	5/20/1999 8:25:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

>>I suspect AT&T may be estimating that business-grade VoIP may be 2-3 years off; they want a credible voice play in the interim, so they are not hostage to the technical and systems development yet to happen, development that we can only guess now at ready dates.<< I'm reminded of some temporary patches we put up in '69 during the moon shot, because we couldn't get a permanent circuit installed to Madrid where the NASA tracking nodes converged. I wonder if anyone pulled them down yet...