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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3814)	5/20/1999 9:43:00 AM
From: Kenneth E. De Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Invisible Qos! I love It!!!! How about gigabit ethernet? That is what I am leaning to. It seems just like a perfect fit.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3814)	5/20/1999 10:57:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Respond to of 12823

Re: Voice Transport Protocols To: Ken, Ken, Frank Ken De Paul, I think I know where you are heading and IMHO, ATM is the CURRENT winner hands down. That was a hot debate that went on a few years back, and continues somewhat today. I guess the reason it keeps coming up is because some of the traditional data networkers previously didn't want to see ATM succeed? I know the draw backs. I know George Gilder said, "ATM is dead. GE is the solution for everything." But keep in mind, ATM was developed by the telcos for the telcos. ATM may be dead in ten years or more, but today it's pretty hot(All IMHO with very limited technical expertise!). I view everything from an investors viewpoint. That's why I hung onto my FORE shares because I knew eventually they would get bought out because of their ATM expertise. GE may be an excellent enabling technology, but IMVHO, it's still kind of early to get heavily into GE investments (But MRVC a month back below book was extremely enticing!<G>). Ken P., Voice is already sent via ATM on the nationwide backbones today in large volume. But what most think of as VoIP only works on Virtual Private Networks (as Frank says) and I imagine since it's on a VPN, ATM overhead is not needed to get decent quality. But in the real world of the Internet, VoIP will be a long way off. As far as the NT announcement, I believe when they say it's a VoIP deployment, it's a little misleading because I'm guessing it's Voice over a VPN and not really the, "Internet," as they infer. Correct me if I'm wrong because it's hard to pick up details on what NT refers to as VoIP. MikeM(From Florida)