VoIP mangling

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

From: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9647&feedId=online-news_rss20

A patent application from German company Infineon reveals a technology
for deliberately interfering with internet telephony transmissions -
or "voice over IP" (VoIP).

The application doesn't expand on why it would be used. But it could
conceivably come in handy for any company that operates both phone and
internet services and would like to protect their phone business from
the growing popularity of VoIP.

According to the application, a machine on a computer network would
analyse passing "packets" of information, distinguishing between data
and voice ones. After identifying a series of voice packets, it would
add extra "pseudo-packets" to the communications stream. These packets
would be labelled as voice but actually contain nothing useful.

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Patents here: http://tinyurl.com/fbzr6
     and here: http://tinyurl.com/eboj9


-JP<who thinks the Internet mangles VoIP pretty well on its own>
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