Voice Funnel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

The Voice Funnel was an experimental high-speed interface between digitized speech streams and a packet-switching communications network, built 1979-1981. It may be viewed as a very early "Voice over IP" telephone.

The Voice Funnel was designed and built by Bolt, Beranek and Newman. During the 1980s, it was used for audio and video conferences across the ARPANET, and later evolved into the multi-processor BBN Butterfly computers.

[edit] References

  • Rettberg, R., C. Wyman, D. Hunt, M. Hoffman, P. Carvey, B. Hyde, W. Clark and M. Kraley. Development of a Voice Funnel System: Design Report, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Report No. 4098, August 1979.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../v/o/i/Voice_Funnel_07fc.html"