The VoIP Weblog has a post about TimeWarner Cable in New York offering Digital Telephony. The headline calls it VoIP.
I'm not so sure, but being in Lyon France right now, it's a bit hard to get too concerned. Like Cox and a few other cable companies, Digital Telephony has been around for a while. It's not really VoIP, but ATM over Sonet. There is a big difference, and what the cable operators basically did was create their own telephone networks complete with switching gear that worked like the SS7 networks of the telcos.
At $39.95 a month, it also isn't a bargain...my bets are it isn't VoIP, but I may be wrong....
What is the definition of VoIP, Voice over Internet Protocol. Does it matter whether it is HFC, Cat 5, or what ever. If it is IP based, then there is no argument. Look at the FCC web site http://www.fcc.gov/voip/, keep it simple. Don't make more out of it then what it is. You tell what is "true" VoIP.
A car is a car, Honda, Nissan, Chevrolet, Ford,...unless you argue engine sizes, horsepower, do you want comfort or torque?
And yes you can have VoIP with out having the internet. How you say, ever heard of filters?
Posted by: woohoo | April 27, 2005 at 01:32 PM
I've heard rumors that Packet 8 has gone MLM with VOIP. Anybody know what the name of the company is?
Posted by: bruce h | December 06, 2004 at 11:01 PM
I am BETTING the TULSA an ROANOKE are a true VOIP hybrid ...........MOST of the TIME Warner Roadrunner at $44 is a JOKE imho.........a switched circuit based OVERCHARGED joke........Level3 I am betting has the Roanoke/Tulsa VOIP for handoffs/terminations! Watch ATT and its Dorfman pull out elephant Mating MOVE!
skibare
Posted by: skibare | October 04, 2004 at 12:41 PM
Time Warner's "Digital Phone" service has never been anything but VoIP.
Posted by: telecom_nomad | October 04, 2004 at 11:51 AM