[JDEV] voice over jabber

[Thomas Muldowney]

I hope no one is looking to write a whole new system =)  As far as I
know it's always just been about getting the two to figure out where and
how to connect.  Just nobody has documented it yet.

--temas


On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:40:59AM -0800, Brian McConnell wrote:
> My two cents on voice over IP.
> 
> I think it is not worth the effort to integrate voice capabilities directly
> into Jabber. There are a number of open source IP telephony efforts already
> underway. A better use of time is to figure out how to link to these
> services within Jabber clients.
> 
> The issues associated with voice over IP are not trivial because of the
> quality of service requirements for good voice communication. You must deal
> with: echo cancellation, latency due to sound subsystem in the PC, latency
> due to vocoders, latency due to network, dealing with competition from
> bursty network traffic, etc. Even with all of the work that has been done
> for the past five years, VoIP is still not completely reliable.
> 
> Brian McConnell
> 
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