Re: Intel, Microsoft doing Internet Phone Software

[W Lee Nussbaum <wln@evolution.com>]

On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, jim bell wrote:

> If these people REALLY wanted to promote the use of Internet telephoning, 
> what they'd do is implement a system where an Internet ISP could be "called" 
> over the Internet by a person wanting to place an LD telephone call to that 
> area, and (presumably using A/D and D/A techniques) rather than generating 
> and receiving modem tones, woudl generate and transmit the audio over the 
> telephone line.  That way, the target of the call would simply need to pick 
> up the telephone and talk, as he would ordinarily do:  He wouldn't even need 
> a computer.  He might not even know the call was going over the Internet.  

...see IDT's Net2Phone product, at http://www.net2phone.com/; it does 
what you describe.  Two notes: (1) I haven't used it yet; (2: disclosure) 
I'm now employed by IDT, though in a different area.

 - Lee