Agreed. It's better for us to focus on what we do best and let someone else solve the VoIP problem.
Let Jabber be Jabber. ;) Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Brian McConnell wrote: > My two cents on voice over IP. > > I think it is not worth the effort to integrate voice capabilities directly > into Jabber. There are a number of open source IP telephony efforts already > underway. A better use of time is to figure out how to link to these > services within Jabber clients. > > The issues associated with voice over IP are not trivial because of the > quality of service requirements for good voice communication. You must deal > with: echo cancellation, latency due to sound subsystem in the PC, latency > due to vocoders, latency due to network, dealing with competition from > bursty network traffic, etc. Even with all of the work that has been done > for the past five years, VoIP is still not completely reliable. > > Brian McConnell > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
