Most (US-based) phone equipment can't deal with clear channels, (ok, long strings of zero data) thus, a DS0 (the cannonical single voice call) operates with one bit always set 'on', so your 64kbps channel is now a 56kbps channel. 4:1 compression would get you to (just) inside the magic '14400' bps limit of v.32bis signaling. Such algorithms exist, though their performance on data with characteristics like 'voice' is poor at worst. CLEP is a speech encoding algorithm (compressor) that can work well inside a 4800bps channel. It is, however, quite expensive in terms of CPU power. A DSP would help here. :-) CLEP also tends to diminish the dynamic range of its input, with a resulting loss of 'quality'. Writing things in assembly is not a magic bullet, making the algorithm go faster just as a consequence of it being hand-rolled. The v.fast (28000 bps) modes may, or may not work at 28000 bps between any two endpoints. (subscribers). Jim