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Voice Over Internet Revolution Will Be Big but Quiet


Lisa Minter (lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:16:52 -0400

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pulver26oct26,0,3831005.story?coll=la-home-business

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Voice Over Internet Revolution Will Be Big but Quiet, Prominent Booster Says

By James S. Granelli, Times Staff Writer

Telecommunications is a witches' brew of acronyms like TDM, FTTH,
ISDN, PSTN, POTS and CDMA.

Another one is quickly catching on 'VOIP', for voice over Internet
protocol, a technology that breaks up a voice call into data packets
and sends it, like e-mail, along a high-speed connection.

Jeff Pulver has been promoting VOIP for more than a decade, longer
than most of the companies offering VOIP service have existed. Through
his frequent Voice on the Net conferences, he has brought together
VOIP engineers, entrepreneurs, analysts, consultants, venture
capitalists, vendors, providers and, most important, regulators.

Full story at:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pulver26oct26,0,3831005.story?coll=la-home-business

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