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Putting VoIP the crash-test; while some MSOs opted to take the early plunge on circuit-switched telephony, several others are driving down the VoIP path as the technology continues to mature.(voice-over-Internet protocol)
CED, May, 2002 by Baumgartner, Jeff
"Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."
Those words, as telephony lore has it, were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 to his assistant Thomas A. Watson after Bell accidentally spilled battery acid on his knickers. As everyone knows, the significance is not that Bell could be a clumsy oaf, but that the words he uttered were heard by Watson over what is hailed as the first telephony transmitter.
From there, of course, Bell went on to found the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. But enough with the history lessons for today.
The cable industry today is busy writing its own telephone history, but, for the most part, with pens dipped in traditional constant-bit-rate (CBR) technology. Well into development now is Voice-over-Internet...
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