Charles Eliot (charle@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:12:10 -0800
The ability to take voicemail offline, ie to download onto your laptop
and read/reply without an active connection, has been one of the most
compelling scenarios for unified messaging adoption by corporate road
warriers. I'll try to dig up reference studies.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Baxter [mailto:anthony@interlink.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 3:21 AM
To: Charles Eliot
Cc: IETF VPIM List
Subject: Re: [VPIM] RE: 3GPP-T-WG3 codecs
>>> "Charles Eliot" wrote
> Turns out - after much sighing and gnashing of teeth - that there is
no
> patent issue. MS-GSM implements the GSM codec, and the proposed RFC
> describes how to format a GSM bitstream in such a way that the MS-GSM
> codec can read it.
>
> The balance between file size and desktop ubiquity is always going to
be
> tricky. I'm leaning these days towards G.711, but as Eric Burger
pointed
> out there is still a lot of slow-link dialup going on out there.
As I mentioned in my last mail, though - surely this is more of an
issue for real time voice, like a phone call, rather than
store-and-forward
as for voicemail?
If you are working with low bandwidth clients, I see no reason why
you couldn't offer a voicemail listen page (say, in a webmail type
situation) that sends the data in a more compressed format - has
there been any studies done on how many of those low-bandwidth users
will actually be pulling their email down to their local PCs, versus
leaving it on a webmail service (hotmail, or whatever)?
Anthony
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