As I said, the U.S Government was first to use it. Who designed it for Government use is Secret. The first commercial use of Voip was the Computer-to-Computer type. Used in the the first used computer networks in University Libraries and Campuses. The Ethernet standard grew out of this to connect Universities together. The Ethernet Standard expanded from that to what we use today. So, the first Voip was used in Universities as a program to communicate from one computer to another.
There are a few things in your post that don't make sense to me.
What do you mean by "The Ethernet Standard"?
Like the the Ethernet that Bob Metcalf and David Boggs invented?
I thought most Universities were connected via leased line, not Ethernet, in the Bad Old Days (TM).
ARCNET was pretty popular too in the Bad Old Days (TM).
.. most of the articles i've read tells of Vocaltec, a small company releasing the 1st internet phone software..
"This software was designed to run on a home PC and much like the PC phones used today, it utilized sound cards, microphones and speakers. The software was called "Internet Phone" and used the H.323 protocol instead of the SIP protocol that is more prevalent today."
cool, ..
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