Presence and IntComm WG

[Ben Teitelbaum <>]

Jiri Kuthan 
<>
 writes:

> At 05:52 PM 7/2/2004, Ben Teitelbaum wrote:
>>> Why do you want this?  So you can use iLBC over the wireless network
>>> and then G.711 over the wired network to some client/gateway that
>>> doesn't support iLBC?
>>
>>Correct.
>
>
> There are even more benefits than bandwidth saving, actually
> I would argue such are extremelly important. With broadband 
> access such as DLS, bandwidth is plantiful but packet losses 
> still happen to occur. Good packet loss concealment makes then 
> a great subjetive difference which is imho more valueble then 
> iLBC's bandwidth saving.

Exactly.  It is precisely because of iLBC's excellent packet loss
concealment and the lossy nature of WiFi (especially in the presence
of 500 laptops!) that I am interested in iLBC-G.711 media gateways.

In fact, someone ought to hack Linksys firmware to do this so it could
happen right in the AP.  Not sure there's enough CPU in those funny
blue boxes for this, but it's a thought.

-- ben