That about covers it whereas VOIP from home can be a bit shaky as far as
voice quality and the fact that you have to backfeed the signal to have it
work with all the jacks the CBR service works very well with great quality
and very good dialup connection rates. I configure laptops at home as part
of my job as all the phones at work are digital on a pbx. I take them home
get them configured then make sure everything works before I give them out I
always get great connection rates on dialup. I just wish they did not
charge so much. I would change to voip in a heartbeat though for how much I
use my phone except that DishNetwork requires a phone line for their box or
pay 5 bucks more/month that is about what my savings would be so I am still
waiting hoping they come out with an internet based connection for the boxes
would make a lot more sense and save them from having a huge modem bank for
phone lines.

Wayne

"G. Morgan" wrote in message
...
Someone named "wayne" Proclaimed on Sun, 03 Oct
2004 03:33:52 GMT,

here is a blurb about it, it is called circuit switched?


Ahhhhh.. I see what you're talking about now. That is the service the
article you cited was "aquired", from AT&T Broadband. I didn't know
about that. That is on it's way out now - as evidenced in this
article in Cable World, March 10,2003:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...15/ai_98654947

It took me some searching but you're right, here's what I found on the
"circuit-switched" or "CBR" service:

http://www.vonage.com/corporate/pres...R=2003_08_01_5

"Adding phone service has strengthened the bundles even more. Cox
reports that in an area where its video-only churn rate was 1.7
percent in 2001, the churn rate for customers taking video, data, and
voice service as a bundle was 0.8 percent, less than half. Some
players, such as AT&T Broadband - now part of Comcast Corp.- and Cox,
moved into telephony several years ago. They were able to do this by
using constant bit rate (CBR), or circuit-switched service, which
relies on traditional Class 5 telecom switching.
The advent of new technologies such as IPbased or packetized voice
along with the evolving capabilities of cable platforms allows
cablecos to expand CBR phone systems less-expensively with IP or
deploy pure IP telephony systems. All the top cable MSOs and a large
percentage of smaller cablecos, have been testing VoIP infrastructure.
Many have been conducting field and marketing trials. A few even have
full rollouts."


According to Comcast they are going to maintain the CBR clients, but
seek no new ones. Everything is going VoIP my friend. The good news
is with high-speed access already in the house, you won't need that
old 56k modem. The bad news is systems that rely on constant
connection (no packets) like security system dialers, and FAX machines
will suffer hit-and-miss operation due to timing (frequency) issues.


Regards,



-Graham

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