eSurvellance via cable modem?

[Steve Schear]

At 09:20 PM 3/3/01 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>        Interesting tho that they make a point several times that they aren't
>under CALEA, but seem to be extremely ready to roll right over regardless,
>including for non-VoIP taps.

And this surprises?


>Steve Schear wrote:
>
> > At 09:30 PM 3/2/01 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> > >Doing a little research to be up to speed on cable...
> > >PacketCable is interesting, as it talks about online gaming, telephony,
> > >etc... but check out this part of the spec.
> > >
> > >
> > >http://www.packetcable.com/specs/pkt-sp-esp-I01-991229.pdf
> >
> > Nothing really surprising here.  This spec, as I understand it, applies
> > only to VoIP connections established through the service provider's Call
> > Management System (their equivalent of a PBX).  If users employ their own
> > SW to do call placement it doesn't come under the spec.  (Of course, that
> > means you also don't get the improved latency characteristics offered by
> > the ISP for their VoIP terminated calls).
> >
> > steve