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| VoIP Voice Quality for all is still a long way away VoIP parity with POTS voice Quality is still a long ways away. Some of the issues include, but not limited to:
1) PSTN POTS can work under a power outage. Broadband DSL or Cable is years aways from this and in remote areas perhaps decades away.
2) PSTN POTS provides extremely good Voice Quaility. VoIP voice quality consistently is achieved at around a 10 Mbps connection. If someone has under a 10Mbps connection, and especially a asynchronous connection like DSL, multitasking surfing on the internet and talking and VoIP can run into lots of interaction issues on VoIP quality (uplink bandwidth, downlink bandwidth, Web 2.0 model javascript CPU usage competing with VoIP codec CPU needs, etc.).
3) As desktop computers can drive more and more ethernet bandwidth, simultaneous use of P2P applications can cause havoc with VoIP services. Some P2P applications will even spoof the ToS and QoS bits to enable higher bandwidth for their P2P service, and thus VoIP suffers. The FCC would need to step into everything P2P and lots of MMOG games as well.
4) Wireless data bandwidth, outdoor placement of radios and indoor use is extremely difficult. Your cellular voice service is now at about 4 Kbps. Think about all the drop calls and Voice quality problems at 4 Kpbs then translate that to a 5 Mbps service on a Wireless data network. This is evidenced by all the Clearwire quality problems.
And these are the icycle on the tip of the iceberg topics.
I do applaud the effort. Just wish that most of the development would be done in the USA, but due to globalization, this initiative would most likely only increase development and jobs in foreign countries and thus stimulate those economies. I wish companies like Cisco would be required to have a % made in the USA label like the Car companies. The amount of product developed overseas is so huge. Another issue for the FCC to try and address. | |
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join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | You are trying to compare internet VOIP and regular POTS, this is not what is being suggested. The VOIP that is being suggested is what CC, Charter, etc is using, an isolated network just for VOIP. | |
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