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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 13 December 2006 09:52 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Linux-based WiFi phone uses open-source connection kit
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Belkin is shipping a WiFi phone based on Linux and Skype's proprietary
>>> | VoIP (voice-over-IP) client. The Belkin WiFi Phone for Skype can use
>>> | open or encrypted WiFi networks, and connects seamlessly at
>>> | commercial hotspots and hot zones operated by Boingo, Belkin says.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3218543419.html
>>
>> I got a look at the skype video phone working the other day. Last time I
>> saw it it was very out of sync, which you expect from these things, so you
>> tend to turn the video off after the introduction because it is too off
>> putting.
>>
>> But the skype web must have grown huge because the video-voice sync was
>> almost spot on on the one I watched.
>
> I have been seeing some Skype phones as well and they are Linux-based. It
> seems like a natural fit where you produce many units and don't want to pay
> royalties or be restricted when implementing (the Windows embedded platform
> is a 'look but don't touch', IIRC). I spotted your post in the other thread
> and I'll try to reduce the posting pace or join related items. Sorry about
> that... never intended to be a handful... only to defeat myths and
> disinformation, of which there's plenty.
>
You still can't do streaming on packet networks reliably, though, unless
you get connection-oriented packet switching (carrier-grade ethernet).
China Telecom are rolling it out, so the first country *in the world* to
get this technology will be China. Skype will work there, so long as
you can get the skype streams (video & audio) onto the deterministic
network.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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