Re: VoIP mangling

[Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com>]

 Neat! A manufacturer of "Internet Dump Trucks!"  :)

At 02:03 PM 8/1/06, you wrote:
> From: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9647&feedId=online-news_rss20
>
> A patent application from German company Infineon reveals a technology
> for deliberately interfering with internet telephony transmissions -
> or "voice over IP" (VoIP).
>
> The application doesn't expand on why it would be used. But it could
> conceivably come in handy for any company that operates both phone and
> internet services and would like to protect their phone business from
> the growing popularity of VoIP.
>
> According to the application, a machine on a computer network would
> analyse passing "packets" of information, distinguishing between data
> and voice ones. After identifying a series of voice packets, it would
> add extra "pseudo-packets" to the communications stream. These packets
> would be labelled as voice but actually contain nothing useful.
>
> ----------------------
>
> Patents here: http://tinyurl.com/fbzr6
>     and here: http://tinyurl.com/eboj9
>
>
> -JP<who thinks the Internet mangles VoIP pretty well on its own>
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