This sounds like a porky to me. That's a lot of effort to go to. Telecom are a revenue generating company. Do you spend lots of try trying to devise methods to stop protocols working that you likely to be using yourself long term, or stick to spending your money on developing new products to generate more money. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley(a)isc.org] Sent: Friday, 18 March 2005 1:26 p.m. To: nznog Subject: [nznog] telecom planning to break VoIP over its network? http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050317.html "And there are other dirty tricks available to broadband ISPs. Telecom New Zealand, for example, is reportedly planning to alter TCP packet interleaving to discourage VoIP. By bunching all voice packets in the first half of each second, half a second of dead air would be added to every conversation, changing latency in a way that would drive grandmothers everywhere back to their old phone companies. This is because phone conversations happen effectively in real time and so are very sensitive to problems of latency. Where one-way video and audio can use buffering to overcome almost any interleaving issue, it is a deal-breaker for voice." _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog