On Sunday February 13 2005 22:44, Andrew Baudouin spake: > > Right. Cox does not offer VoIP, but instead offers > > something like local phone service. My wife needed the > > extra services that VoIP provides, like a phone number > > in a different area code. > > It most certainly is VOIP. Cox provides an Arris telephony router > which supplies phone service to all of the jacks in your house.
I'm not sure what you have, but Cox here in New Orleans provides for-real phone service. They put a yellow tag on the pole, with a fat warning about "90 Volts, don't touch". I sat through a meeting when I did cable modem installs for one of their constractors a few years back, and they have to keep their uptime at 3 or 4 "nines", or they face heavy fines from the FCC. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net GPG key fingerprint = 8F11 D859 81A6 DE8C 5429 4A07 7146 1AFD 5C41 161E "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050215/4ead17cd/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 15 10:15:56 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Harney) Date: Tue Feb 15 10:15:51 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] anyone using Vonage over Cox Cable successfully? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joey Kelly wrote: > I'm not sure what you have, but Cox here in New Orleans provides for-real > phone service. They put a yellow tag on the pole, with a fat warning about > "90 Volts, don't touch". I sat through a meeting when I did cable modem > installs for one of their constractors a few years back, and they have to > keep their uptime at 3 or 4 "nines", or they face heavy fines from the FCC. Cox in New Orleans is traditional TDM phone service. Same tech as regular phone company carries to the customer location except the transmission media over Cox's HFC network to the home. At the house is a NID similar to the NID bellsouth provides. Baton Rouge is entirely PacketCable based Voice. It's sort of a hybrid between the TDM approach and SIP-based VOIP like Vonage. The demarc could be at the modem which is actually referred to as an eMTA. The eMTA can also be external and look just like a NID. The provider then has to decide if they're doing backup power over powerline or via on premise batteries. Not sure which Cox is doing. There's also 911 service to consider. Despite the different method for delivering dialtone, I believe the regulations are the same but IANAL, etc. SIP-based VOIP ala Vonage is far less regulated and essentially the end customer takes responsibility for maintaining power on the equipment -- meaning your router to your cable modem and your MTA from Vonage. Since it's 3rd party, the internet provider doesn't need secondary power to the cable modem and isn't subject to some of the same regulations. Some cable providers are looking at SIP-based VOIP instead of packetcable too. But I'm not sure how they're dealing with the regulatory issues. -- Scott Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers" gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
