Yea.. it's called a telco running VoIP. Even though we have all these great services out there like Vonage... it will truly get interesting when the 800 pound gorilla gets in the game. Trust me they are looking at it. They have to for competition sake.
One thing I didn't make clear about the Do Not Call list... just like you can have rules for people... you can create a rule for everyone else, or "Anonymous". Those people could be send directly to voicemail or simply hung up on.
So that is a very interesting question to answer. I've been playing with VoIP since 1993 (Remember Vocaltec?) I've long expected VoIP to become more mainstream before now. However, with cheap long distance that transformation from switch public telephone networks to packet based didn't happen.
When the FCC allowed for competition of the last mile that created an interesting problem for Telcos. They no longer had an advantage because they owned the wire. In fact it was hurting them because they were regulated and many alternate companies competiting with them were not regulated the same way. This created an uneven playing field and has hurt the telcos bottom line badly. Enter VoIP.
The Telcos are fervently looking at packet based technologies to get to the same playing field as their competitors as far as regulation goes. Enter the FCC again...
The FCC and local governments will probably recognize that they are no longer getting the revenue they once did off switched telco lines and start taxing data communication lines at a flat rate. The government will get their money some how... but in the end everyone will be competiting at the same level.
Now... to your question about the Do Not Call list. One of the interesting things with SIP is that it is extensible much like http. You can customize the signaling for your own application. Many companies out there have recognized this and are building in a lot of user controls into how calls are handled. For instance.. if I want all calls from "president@whitehouse.gov" to go to voicemail I can do that. However at the same time I can write a rule that would send "warren@berkshirehathaway.com" to Simultaneously ring my SIP phone, my cell phone, and my work phone.
Another item to toss into the mix to think about... if telcos really do switch over to packet based technologies... are phone numbers really needed long term? Of course.. you'll need numbers to call grandma because she still has the same phone she's had for 50 years. There could come a time when you actually will pay extra to get a phone number and it will be because you have someone like grandma in your life.
Think about it... SIP could be as significant to communications as the web was to the internet.
19.2 isn't enough bandwidth for G.729 or G.711. You'll need at least 30k to even think about doing VoIP. If you want to do toll quality you'll need about 100k of bandwidth.
Check it out... it seems too good to be true. But it really does help a lot. I've experienced this in Skype and another product that isn't out on the market yet.
It actually will, in my opinion, make VoIP viable on most networks. We no longer have to consider designing networks for less than 1 percent packet lossn (which is nearly impossible for more corporations)
Ahhh you see... that is where Skype shines. It has technology licensed from Global IP Sound that will mask clips in voice due to data loss and hight jitter. Extreme Tech doesn't know enough about VoIP to realize this yet...
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Yea.. it's called a telco running VoIP. Even though we have all these great services out there like Vonage... it will truly get interesting when the 800 pound gorilla gets in the game. Trust me they are looking at it. They have to for competition sake.
-jonmck
One thing I didn't make clear about the Do Not Call list... just like you can have rules for people... you can create a rule for everyone else, or "Anonymous". Those people could be send directly to voicemail or simply hung up on.
-jonmck
So that is a very interesting question to answer. I've been playing with VoIP since 1993 (Remember Vocaltec?) I've long expected VoIP to become more mainstream before now. However, with cheap long distance that transformation from switch public telephone networks to packet based didn't happen.
When the FCC allowed for competition of the last mile that created an interesting problem for Telcos. They no longer had an advantage because they owned the wire. In fact it was hurting them because they were regulated and many alternate companies competiting with them were not regulated the same way. This created an uneven playing field and has hurt the telcos bottom line badly. Enter VoIP.
The Telcos are fervently looking at packet based technologies to get to the same playing field as their competitors as far as regulation goes. Enter the FCC again...
The FCC and local governments will probably recognize that they are no longer getting the revenue they once did off switched telco lines and start taxing data communication lines at a flat rate. The government will get their money some how... but in the end everyone will be competiting at the same level.
Now... to your question about the Do Not Call list. One of the interesting things with SIP is that it is extensible much like http. You can customize the signaling for your own application. Many companies out there have recognized this and are building in a lot of user controls into how calls are handled. For instance.. if I want all calls from "president@whitehouse.gov" to go to voicemail I can do that. However at the same time I can write a rule that would send "warren@berkshirehathaway.com" to Simultaneously ring my SIP phone, my cell phone, and my work phone.
Another item to toss into the mix to think about... if telcos really do switch over to packet based technologies... are phone numbers really needed long term? Of course.. you'll need numbers to call grandma because she still has the same phone she's had for 50 years. There could come a time when you actually will pay extra to get a phone number and it will be because you have someone like grandma in your life.
Think about it... SIP could be as significant to communications as the web was to the internet.
-jonmck
19.2 isn't enough bandwidth for G.729 or G.711. You'll need at least 30k to even think about doing VoIP. If you want to do toll quality you'll need about 100k of bandwidth.
-jonmck
Check it out... it seems too good to be true. But it really does help a lot. I've experienced this in Skype and another product that isn't out on the market yet.
It actually will, in my opinion, make VoIP viable on most networks. We no longer have to consider designing networks for less than 1 percent packet lossn (which is nearly impossible for more corporations)
-jonmck
Ahhh you see... that is where Skype shines. It has technology licensed from Global IP Sound that will mask clips in voice due to data loss and hight jitter. Extreme Tech doesn't know enough about VoIP to realize this yet...
-jonmck