The
Challenge of Video Conferencing
as the new
Telephone for the Millennium
By
Donald Alexander
Moskaluk
Submitted to department
of Fachbereich Staats – und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Master Degree in Economics Science
January 2002
Copyright 2002 -
Ukrainian Free University - Ukrainische Freie Universität - All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The growth of Video Conferencing as a potential challenge to regular telephony or the Plain-Old Telephone System (POTS) is an area of academic inquiry needing further examination. This paper critically examines the opposition to Video Conferencing with particular emphasis on limitation of technology on the Internet, the 1996 America's Carriers Telecommunication Association (ACTA) petition to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in addition to the European Commission's attitudes towards the matter. Moreover, the difficulties attached to an understanding of defining what exactly Video Conferencing means and what “Internet Telephony” means are also addressed.
Contents
Video Conferencing related to Internet telephony
The Opposition to Internet Telephony
Internet Telephony as the Service
Telephony & the European Commission
The Demand for Internet Telephony
Phone Gateway Software Providers
Fax Gateway Software Providers
Video Conferencing Clients (with voice conferencing)
Phone Gateway Service Providers
Developers, Researchers and Research Groups
Publications/Presentations/Information
Internet Access Providers/POPs
Public Switched Telephone Network
Standards Groups and Trade
Organizations
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol)
Microsoft's User Locator Service
(ULS)