41.   Steinhardt told the Subcommittee on the Constitution that Carnivore differs significantly from traditional phone wiretaps.

42.   The advent of optical switches could also clear vast amounts of space in the equipment closets at traditional phone companies.

43.   The bigger piece, PacTel, is a traditional phone company, at least for now.

44.   The company develops integrated circuits used to move voice, video and data over traditional phone lines.

45.   The person at the traditional phone will never know the difference, aside from a tinny quality to the sound.

46.   These lines, known as integrated services digital network or ISDN, allow people to get faster access to the Internet global computer network than traditional copper phone lines.

47.   They still make most of their money by providing traditional phone service.

48.   This is another major difference between ISDN and a traditional phone line, which gets its power from the phone company.

49.   This gives a higher transmission quality than that of traditional phones, which use FM-type radio signals.

50.   This would allow the data calls to be handled separately from voice calls, relieving the congestion for traditional phone use, PacTel says.