Re: Very fast IP, no ATM...

[Paul Bryant <]

At 08:48 03/12/96 +0000, you wrote:
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> >You are missing the point, to make voice work, you have to move bits
> >between sender and receiver, and, it does not really matter how you do
> >it.
> 
> >More interesting is to se when you can no longer make a normal
> >phone-call, becouse all the resources in the voice switch is consumed
> >by people accessing the Internet with Modems or ISDN.
>
> >What will they do, improve the voice network  (very expensive) or give
> >people real IP services? Once they given people real IP services,
> >well, voice is just an application.

Interestingly BT claim that their network will never overload as they charge
for local calls - ie ration by cost. The corollary is that if the network
becomes overloaded they raise the cost. 
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>absolutely - voice (and hi hi audio) work very nicely on our 155 Mbps
>IP over ATM net - they could ONLY work BETTER if we tok the ATM
>out....in fact, the utilisation on our IP on 34Mbps SMDS is far
>better...and even there, i think we could sacrifice the SMDS if it
>wasn't so stable...
>
> jon
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>
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