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- Date: 20 Dec 92 19:54 -0800
- From: Jim Thornton <thornton@cs.ubc.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Ethernetted Office Phone Systems?
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- goldstein@carafe.dnet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) writes:
-
- > In article <telecom12.887.2@eecs.nwu.edu>, gtoal@cursci.co.uk (Graham
- > Toal) writes ...
-
- >> However, we were wondering ... has anyone ever built actual
- >> *telephones* for use in a building with local ethernet that used
- >> tcp/ip? If not, there's a tremendous market there: You can program
- >> your phone with your extension, and take it with you when you move
- >> office without reprogramming the exchange (a trivial point but one
- >> that would be useful in *our* office where we're always bloody moving
- >> :-( ) but more importantly you only need to run one ether trunk round
- >> the whole building to cover all possible present and future phone
- >> *and* network needs.
-
- > It's not practical. Ethernet has too much latency plus variable
- > bandwidth. Ethernet telephone's a classical hack of computer
- > scientists with no telephony background who think the whole world's IP
- > and wonder why anybody does anything else.
-
- It has been done. Xerox PARC developed a system called Etherphone(tm)
- which integrates live and recorded voice into an office workstation
- environment. Applications of interest included things like voice
- annotation and editing, narrated hypermedia documents, etc.
-
- Here is a list of papers:
-
- Polle T. Zellweger, Douglas B. Terry, and Daniel C. Swinehart, "An
- Overview of the Etherphone System and its Applications", in
- Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Computer Workstations (Santa
- Clara, CA, March 1988), pp. 160-168.
-
- Daniel C. Swinehart, "Telephone Management in the Etherphone System",
- in Proceedings of the IEEE/IEICE Global Telecommunications Conference
- (Tokyo, November 1987) pp. 1176-1180.
-
- Douglas B. Terry and Daniel C. Swinehart, "Managing Stored Voice in
- the Etherphone System", in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 6(1),
- February 1988, pp. 3-27.
-
- Daniel C. Swinehart, "System Support Requirements for Multi-media
- Workstations", in Proceedings of the SpeechTech '88 Conference (New
- York; April 1988); Media Dimensions, Inc., New York, April 1988, pp.
- 82-83.
-
- Polle T. Zellweger, "Active Paths through Multimedia Documents", in
- Document Manipulation and Typography, J. C. van Vliet (ed.) Cambridge
- University Press, 1988. Proceedings of the EP'88 Conference on
- Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography, (Nice,
- France; April 1988).
-
- This information comes from the Computer Science Laboratory Technical
- Report Digest: 1973-1990. The papers listed are collected in techni-
- cal report CSL-89-2 May 1989.
-
-
- Jim Thornton, thornton@cs.ubc.ca University of British Columbia
-
-