From: calvin@remove.daxack.ca   
      
   Stephen Sprunk (stephen@sprunk.org) said...   
   >   
   >Why would you want to   
   >use a modem over a VoIP line anyway?  If you already have IP access,   
   >then just send the data via IP.   
      
   For the simple reason that the equipment being used is not IP-equipped.   
      
   I do some freelance software work for a small company that produces a   
   telemetry system that gathers data for companies that sell gasses (oxygen,   
   nitrogen, CO2, argon, etc) and their units that sit at the gas users'   
   sites use a modem connection to dial out or receive dial-in polling.   
      
   Perhaps a future version of the unit might be ethernet ready, but that   
   is not in the forseeable future. I suspect there are other situations   
   such as this out there.   
      
   --   
   Calvin Henry-Cotnam   
   "Unusual or extreme reactions to events caused by negligence   
    are imaginable, but not reasonably foreseeable"   
     - Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, May 2008   
      
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