Electronic Surveillance Needs for Carrier-Grade Voice over Packet (CGVoP) Service
CALEA Implementation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jan 29, 2003
http://www.ictlaw.net/upload/fbivoip.pdf
-Hank
* jeffshultz@wvi.com (Jeff Shultz) [Fri 18 Jun 2004, 21:42 CEST]:
Pay for it? If I remember from CALEA, the providers pay for it
(and eventually their customers), and as for "broadband Internet
providers"... I'm guessing anyone who offers end user customers
a circuit bigger than 53.333k.
Pet peeve: broadband isn't a synonym for "faster than a modem."
Cable and DSL are broadband due to those technologies using a wide range
of frequencies. Ethernet is not broadband (but baseband).
-- Niels.
Stephen J. Wilcox [19/06/04 16:38 +0100]:
> A coupla' years ago, the FCC defined "Broadband" as 200Kbps and above.
Hmm different jurisdiction but Tiscali & NTL seems to think broadband is as
low as 100Kbps
In India, it is anywhere over 64 Kbps, and the maximum offered over cable /
dsl is currently 512 Kbps.
And of course, anything below several Mbps (or 100 Mbps in the case of FTTH)
is definitely not "broadband" in Japan 
srs
Thus spake "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
* jeffshultz@wvi.com (Jeff Shultz) [Fri 18 Jun 2004, 21:42 CEST]:
> Pay for it? If I remember from CALEA, the providers pay for it
> (and eventually their customers), and as for "broadband Internet
> providers"... I'm guessing anyone who offers end user customers
> a circuit bigger than 53.333k.Pet peeve: broadband isn't a synonym for "faster than a modem."
Cable and DSL are broadband due to those technologies using a wide range
of frequencies. Ethernet is not broadband (but baseband).
Congress can define a word (in the US legal context) to mean anything they
want; whether such has any relation to its technical definition is
irrelevant. I doubt they care about the technology used to deliver IP
service, only the capabilities and typical users; defining "broadband" as
any circuit 56kbps or above would likely suffice for their intent,
regardless of how incorrect it is.
However, I fail to see how "broadband" or link speeds in general even matter
in this context; what matters is whether the link is of sufficient speed for
VoIP to be feasible, in which case anything from 9.6kbps cellular to WiFi,
from ARCnet to OC192/10GE might qualify -- or might not, if IP isn't running
over it.
S
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