RR WiFi Was: RR dialup

[Gerald Combs]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Patrick Miller wrote:

> Heck TW isn't even doing telephone over cable and that takes 3 Khz according
> to the article in the original post. I don't know if that is digitally
> enhanced voice (5-10 kbps) or analog (56 kbps) over cable (Digitally you can
> carry hundreds of voice channels on a t-1--Ascend's white paper from before
> they were bought by Lucent).

They're working on it (voice over cable, that is), and they're pretty far 
along:

    http://www.packetcable.com/specifications/

There's a lot more to providing voice over cable than allocating n KHz at
the head-end.  You have to have an infrastructure in place for
telephony-style provisioning, standards to make sure everyone's equipment
interoperates, a robust enough network to provide QoS and reliable E911
service, a viable business model, regulatory compliance, etc etc etc.

I wonder if Time-Warner is up to the task.