Technologies that let an IP-based telecommunications provider offer IP telephony services commensurate in quality to the traditional switched circuit providers, or at least as good a quality as cell phone providers can offer, are now getting close to being finalized by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

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The product can also be used in IP telephony devices and cable modems, the company said.

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But among investors and vendors of emerging technologies such as IP telephony, expect a very different reaction--and concern about the future.

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