At 07:39 PM 11/27/99 -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Thus spake Allen Marsalis
Has anyone tried the TC VoIP stuff? I think it's called CommWorks. Any comments?
I believe it runs on NT, right? Which is enough to ensure that I won't ever try it.
Yes it runs on the edgeserver which unfortunately means NT, for the most part.. But if it didn't use NT and all the prewritten telephony code, I doubt 3com could get it out the door! (under unix, pilgrim, whatever) And I doubt it's any less stable than if it were 100% 3com code.. Anyway, what about just the concepts of: Internet Call Waiting - Virtual second line. Customers can make and receive phone calls while online. Anyone see any demand for this? We haven't. Telephony enhanced e-commerce (Web based call centers) - Click-and-talk buttons let customers reach Web merchants through dedicated, encrypted connections. Little demand there too I imagine. Long-distance telephone service - deliver phone to phone service between your pops on existing facilities. This is really the only one I'm interested in. Especially if we can use existing hardware and links. I have no idea what this stuff costs but it shouldn't be more than a new edgeserver w/NT, and some software... Allen - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.