Re: [codec] #16: Multicast?

[Koen Vos <[e-mail]>]

Hi Raymond,

I can still only come to one conclusion:
For typical VoIP applications, Moore's law has lessened the pressure  
to reduce bitrates, delay and complexity, and has shifted the focus to  
fidelity instead.  This trend is also visible in recent ITU-T  
standards like G.718, G.719 and G.729.1.

Some exceptions to the rule may exist, but, like ITU-T, we don't need  
to cover every imaginable use case in one standard.

All in all I'm happy with the current requirements document, and it's  
unclear what specific changes (besides a Bluetooth mode) you have in  
mind...?

best,
koen.



Quoting "Raymond (Juin-Hwey) Chen" <[e-mail]>:

> Hi Koen,
>
>>> I wouldn't be surprised if the total VoIP users worldwide exceed 100M,
>>> probably significantly.
>
>> Correct, Skype alone has > 100M active users...
>
> [Raymond]: I knew Skype has hundreds of millions of subscribers. My
> comment above was specifically referring to the non-computer-based
> VoIP subscribers where a physical telephone set is involved in a
> VoIP phone call.  Sorry for not making it clear.
>
>>> Most of these are still narrowband.
>
>> No: super-wideband.
>
> [Raymond]: See my comment above.  For those VoIP phone calls that
> involve at least a physical telephone set, most of them are still
> narrowband calls today.  I trust that what you said (super-wideband)
> must be correct for computer-to-computer calls since Skype dominates
> that market there and you know that market better than I do, but I
> am talking about something totally different here.
>
>> Are IP phones that come on the market today still using only
>> narrowband?  That must be a quickly reducing segment, no?
>
> [Raymond]: Many enterprise IP phones shipped today indeed have
> wideband (16 kHz) capabilities. However, a lot of enterprises may
> still configure them to do only narrowband calls.  Even if some
> enterprises do enable wideband calls on these phones, wideband calls
> are typically only available for IP-phone-to-IP-phone calls between
> IP phones in their own corporate network.  The moment an employee
> dial out of the corporate network, it's essentially all narrowband.
>
> There are some wideband cell phone trials in Europe.  However, when
> I spoke to a veteran in the cell phone industry, his assessment was
> that the up-take on wideband cell phones would be pretty slow, and
> the narrowband cell phones would be here to stay for a VERY, VERY
> long time.  He said even today we still have to support the very
> first digital cellular standard codec, the 13 kb/s GSM Full-Rate
> codec, about 20 years after it came out.  His point was that
> narrowband cell phones would not go away for a long, long time.  I
> guess similar things can be said for narrowband land-line
> telephones.
>
>> I do agree that "we shouldn't completely ignore narrowband."
>
> [Raymond]: Glad that we have an agreement here :o)
> Have a good weekend.
>
>
>