Subject: Internet Telephony for Innuit (was: Audio Compression)

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 10 May 96 16:31:26 EDT

Steve,

How are you?  Must be cold up there.  I have started a mailing list
specifically to help coordinate interoperability standards efforts among
the multiple Internet Telephony software developers who have announced or
introduced such products, and to discuss the concerns of the Internet
community with regard to such applications.  Our intent is to have a BOF at
the June Montreal IETF to attract a number of these software vendors into the
IETF standards process (we will need to request the help of several IETF
working groups to address the technical issues related to Internet Telephony).

I am posting your request to the above mentioned list
([email-masked]), since a number of the relevant software
vendors are represented on this list, as are other interested parties
who have many contacts in this industry.  I expect you will receive more
than one reply to your request for help regarding audio compression options.

Regards,

Ed Ellesson
email: [email-masked]
Day Phone: 919-254-4115

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 Date: Fri, 10 May 96 09:37:25 PDT
 From: [email-masked]
 To: [email-masked]
 Subject: Can someone offer some suggestions to this person?

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 From [email-masked] Fri May 10 08:42:25 1996
 Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:42:23 -0400
 From: [email-masked]
 To: [email-masked]
 Subject: Audio Compression
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 Bob,

 I realize this is out of left field, but...

 I'm working on a project in the very north of Quebec to provide internet
 connections and services to the Innuit.  We expect to set  up 3 villages in
 the next 3 months, with 15 or so waiting in the wings.  The villages are
 connected by 2x56 kb compressed atleast 4x.  Which is not much, but all that
 they can afford.  (a 56kb line to the south costs about $9000 per month).

 I am looking for people who really know how to compress stuff (voice, video,
 audio programming, photos, images et.al.) to find out if there are products
 available or could be made available to allow us to offer some "real"
 services in the North.  (i.e. if Internet Phones currently require 28.8, I
 can get only a few concurrent sessions running...if we could get a service
 running over 2.4 kb (intelligibly)  we could get entire villages talking
 amonst themselves, schools working together etc. etc. etc.

 I know it is hard to fool Mother Nature, but can you point me at anybody who
 is working these issues?

 Thanks,
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 Stephen W. Cooper
 Systems Engineering Society
 108 Parker Road
 Osterville, MA 02655
 [email-masked]

 (508) 420-3100
 (508) 420-0210  (FAX)
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From: Bob Lisbonne <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:30:59 -0700

Ed,
You sent this to me, but addressed it to Steve...
--Bob

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