[OT] Vonage vs. Cox

[Kevin Brown]

> Hugh?  Are you sure Cox phone is not Voice over IP (VoIP), just like 
> Vonage, Lingo, Packet 8, etc.?  Sure you use a normal phone, but the 
> sound is digitized to IP packets before being put on the cable, or on 
> receive, the sound is reconstituted (D-A) before being put on the 2-wire 
> to your normal phone.

Just because they digitize the signal doesn't mean it is VOIP.  I've run 
phone switches at a couple of places and they were digital phone systems 
without being VOIP.  Instead it looks like the are doing copper->fiber 
optic conversion for the phones.