[JDEV] voice over jabber

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Agreed. It's better for us to focus on what we do best and let someone
else solve the VoIP problem.

Let Jabber be Jabber. ;)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, 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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