Re: Better than POTS telecommunications conference service.

[Ben Teitelbaum <>]

Jeremy,

To collaborate across our multiple sites and to bring together various
Internet2 working groups, UCAID relies heavily on voice conferencing.
Many of us spend far more time in bridged voice conferences than we do
on two-party calls.  For example, there are a series of weekly Abilene
planning calls on Wednesday mornings that often last 3 hours.  

PSTN is, of course, not our dog food.  It is also very expensive.
Hence, the focus on conferencing.

These are statements about UCAID's particular needs and do not negate
your assertion that in a university setting, better-than-POTS fidelity
two-party calls may be more compelling.  

Anyway, if you bought wideband-capable handsets for point-to-point
calls, they could be used for wideband conferences or vice versa.

-- ben

Jeremy George 
<>
 writes:

>   I don't understand the focus on conferencing.  SIPconf is only one
> element of the Cinema suite of products offered by Prof. Schulzrinne's
> spinoff company, SIP Communications (www.sipcomm.com).  If a
> significantly better codec than G.711 might implemented, it would be
> much more powerfully used in common two-party sip-sip communication.
> 
>   In that case I'd be interested in looking at it in our SIP
> implementation here.
> 

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