Re: [OT] Vonage vs. Cox

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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: Re: [OT] Vonage vs. Cox
> 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.
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