I thought more than a few here would be interested in this press release and
referenced white paper:
The operative concept in this paper is 'telephone networks'.
"Architectural Solutions to Internet Congestion Based On
SS7 and Intelligent Network Capabilities"
- paul
I just read this paper thanks to good friend Yong printing me a
copy.
It may have been the brown ale I was drinking at the time, but a voice
in my head kept saying "sure, move the POTS data over onto a non-PSTN
network, we're already taking your FAX traffic, how long until we
get your voice traffic too?"
Really a good read, kind of like listening to Rush Limbaugh: learn
how the other guys think.
-a
Quoting Paul Ferguson (ferguson@cisco.com):
The operative concept in this paper is 'telephone networks'.
"Architectural Solutions to Internet Congestion Based On
SS7 and Intelligent Network Capabilities"
I particularly liked the myopic use of the term "Internet Congestion".
And here I thought that they had a solution for MAE-East.... 
I think the paper would have been more accurately titled: "Kludges to get
around modems that don't say goodbye." or "We never should have introduced
flat rate local dialing. What now?"
Tony