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Intel introduced a PCI card Phone Adapter positioned as a complete Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) solution, including hardware, software and services.
The Intel 600SM PCI Phone Adapter allows PC OEMs and system integrators to deliver a VoIP solution for small businesses and residential subscribers. Intel said the ATA is compatible with VoIP services from engin (Australia), Packet8, Skype, and yak.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Intel. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Barefoot Networks built P4-programmable Ethernet switch ASICs. What became of it?
Barefoot Networks brought P4-programmable Ethernet switch ASICs to Semiconductor. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Intel. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Intel today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about VoIP. Here is what it replaced:
POTS / PSTN served from 1876. What ultimately replaced it?
POTS / PSTN analog voice carried as a continuous electrical signal over a copper loop to a circuit-switched exchange, which set up an end-to-end dedicated path for the duration of the call. Its job passed to VoIP — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
