"Cisco Systems Inc.on Wednesday unveiled a system for its Internet-based telephones that promises to allow real-time videoconferencing with television-quality images for less than $200 per user." [link]
Where have we heard this before? -- low cost video phones just around the corner( with 30 fps video no less). This sort of product announcement is not new. The problem with these kind of products is that they ignore a very basic fact:
The internet is a very hostile environment for real time audio/video calling.
This just isn't going to happen.
