VOIP Technology

Running Head : VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL

Voice Over Internet Protocol

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of VoIP Trends and Characteristics

VoIP Technology

Future Trends

Companies Involved with VoIP

Regulation Issues

Global Implications of VoIP

Conclusion

References

Voice Over Internet Protocol

Introduction

What is Voice over Internet Protocol and how dose it work ? It 's a technology for transmitting ordinary telephone calls over the Internet using packet-linked routes . Also called IP telephony . In English it means it 's

a system from transmitting telephone calls over data networks , such as the ones that make up the Internet . For example instead of using the telephone you use the internet to communicate with people . Special gateways are installed at both the sending and receiving end of the communications channel . It converts the voice to IP packets and back again to voice . This only takes less then 100 milliseconds to obtain the quality of service that people are use to from the public switched telephone network

VoIP technology is growing in acceptance , and it seems inevitable that the cheaper , more efficient technology will play an important role in the world 's telephone communication . But it can also mean immediate cost saving and improvement in efficiency for businesses that chose to implement it now . It really works for companies and organizations around the world because it reduces the rising communication costs . See when voice and data networks are combined it offers an opportunity for significant reduction in communication costs (Thomas , 2006 ) Accordingly , the challenge of integrating voice and data networks is becoming a rising priority for network managers . Since data traffic is growing much faster than telephone traffic , a need has been identified to transport voice over data networks , as opposed to the transmission of data over voice networks . This brought about the rise for Voice over IP . VoIP has become especially attractive given the low-cost , flat rate pricing of the public Internet

Indeed , voice communications were managed efficiently by public switched telephone networks (PSTNs ) and cellular net . The very nature of the Internet - used as it was for asynchronous data communication - made it unfavorable for the voice communications industry . Other factors playing a role in this include the loss and retransmission of data packets and no specific bandwidth dedicated for each user . Unlike telephonic networks such as PSTNs and the cellular industry , the Internet is not controlled by a single centralized entity for coordination purposes (James , 2004 ) Real-time communication services powered by the Internet should thus prove highly unlikely or at the very least challenging

However , VoIP technology appears to have evolved to become part of businesses and homes around the world , and financially it is doing increasingly well annually , and projections for the future are rosy Wholesale VoIP for example generated over 400 million in 2002 , whereas sales of VoIP gateways and equipment are estimated to reach 12 billion by 2006 . This is a six-fold increase from 2001 (Wyss , 2003 . Wired IP phones , as well as mobile...