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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/15/23 8:33 PM, Matthew Petach
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<div> I think we often forget just how much of a massive
inversion the </div>
<div>communications industry has undergone; back in the 80s,
when </div>
<div>I started working in networking, everything was DS0 voice
channels, </div>
<div>and data was just a strange side business that nobody in
the telcos </div>
<div>really understood or wanted to sell to. At the time, the
volume of money </div>
<div>being raked in from those DS0/VGE channels was mammoth
compared </div>
<div>to the data networking side; we weren't even a rounding
error. But as the </div>
<div>roles reversed and the pyramid inverted, the data
networking costs didn't</div>
<div>rise to meet the voice costs (no matter how hard the
telcos tried to push</div>
<div>VGE-mileage-based pricing models! </div>
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<p>Haha, when I was at Cisco in the late 90's and was working on
VoIP stuff we were working with Sprint trying to get them onboard
for a residential voice project. They were really insistent on
using AAL2 to conserve bandwidth. I told them at the time that the
bandwidth for voice was going to be insignificant and it wasn't a
big deal that RTP wasn't as efficient. They looked at me like i
had leprosy with body parts falling off. Like the next month it
was announced that data had surpassed voice for the first time. We
didn't get the contract, fwiw. But they never launched anything
either. Was there ever any significant deployment of AAL2? <br>
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<p>Mike<br>
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