ABSTRACT

Some of these systems also pose the thought-provoking question: “Can you take the computer out of com­ puter telephony?” since, in it’s purest form, one-wire won­ ders treat the network as the PBX, with the functions of the phone system absorbed by the parts of the data net­ work, the data hubs and switches taking on the voice switching functions. At the customer premises end are boxes that act as routers and drive phones connected to the networked PCs - or the phones have Ethernet circuitry built into them and are connected to the LAN directly.