Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net

justice0x1 writes "An article on the Tornonto Star about Canada's Telus making a large scale motion to move all call trafic over to IP caught my eye today. 'Telus will become the first dominant phone carrier in North America to make the risky transition, a move much talked about and which Telus will make happen on a dramatic scale.' Since I work in the Telus Internet Service department, it will be interesting to see exactly how this new technology fares. Seems almost premature to me, but I guess it's all or nothing with telecomunications these days; you need to get an edge on the competition somehow. Why not start by moving youre entire long distance network over to IP?"

Comments

New error messages

[wiggys]

"Sorry, but your call could not be connected at this time due to a 404 error. Please reconfigure your phone line and try again."

Re:New error messages

[muonzoo]

That's not just funny, it's in the SIP [a common VoIP protocol] spec! :

RFC 3261 Section 21.4.5 clearly states:

21.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has definitive information that the user does not exist at
the domain specified in the Request-URI. This status is also
returned if the domain in the Request-URI does not match any of the
domains handled by the recipient of the request.

I see them every day at work if I misdial from my Cisco 7960.

Made me laugh the first time; now it just makes me cry. :-)

Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to have to yell at my roommates to get off the phone and stop hogging the phone line.

Now I'll have to yell at them to get off the phone and stop hogging the bandwidth.

Re:Not the public Internet (I hope)

[Realistic_Dragon]

So I suppose you still can not slashdot the phone network.

My sister has been trying to DoS the phone network through overuse for many years now, so far to no effect.

"normal" call ?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

In fact, the quality of the transmission was so good, so much like being there, that Telus engineers added a bit of noise to make the call sound, well, more normal.

They should drop calls and overcharge customers too to complete the picture.

Spam

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

By treating voices and video like any other piece of data, such as e-mail

Soon Canadians will be getting enlarge-your-penis and invest-in-nigeria phone calls.

Dude! I got this chick's number! 127.0.0.1!

[gatesh8r]

I'm going to have to call her later on. She's like, into Lord of the Rings and other geeky stuff. BTW, what's Linux???

Goddamnit!

[Ryvar]

In fact, the quality of the transmission was so good, so much like being there, that Telus engineers added a bit of noise to make the call sound, well, more normal.

Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!

I was going to use a modem over VoIP! Curse you, Telus!

Re:Having read a little deeper

[Anonymous Coward]

Any ideas on what OS is used to control this?

Psh. Windows PE (Phone Edition), of course. What other OS could possibly give five 9's?

Re:And So we move closer to integrated communicati

[SEWilco]

"Dear Sir,

I am writing this letter to request ISP service from you. After that is completed, I will be able to telephone you to arrange a domain transfer.

Incidentally, do you know to whom I can write to arrange for water service so I can watch CNN?"

Re:I'm already fully converted...

[Talez]

That's scary.

You can call Sydney cheaper than I can and I live in Australia!

Tornonto

[Apostata]

Meanwhile, in hockey news, the Ananheim Mighty Ducks face the Newn Jersney Devils.

(I see the upcoming pot de-regulation is having it's effect)