eSurvellance via cable modem?

Harmon Seaver hseaver at arrowhead.lib.mn.us
Sat Mar 3 19:20:47 PST 2001


       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.

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





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