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Internet Telephony (VOIP)
Internet telephony (also called VoIP, Voice over IP, IP Telephony, and Digital Phone) enables the user to make telephone calls over a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular (or analog) phone line. Some Internet telephony services only allow the user to call others using the same service, but other VoIP providers allow users to call any telephone number - including local, long distance, mobile, and international numbers.


NEWS

HP's networking chief : VoIP transition "will take 20 years"
Bucking the trend, HP's networking chief says that it could take 20 years for VoIP to oust circuit-switched telephony:
The 'slow retirement' of the old PBX phone shows how long network infrastructure takes to change, he told a Netevents forum in Garmisch, Germany.
...'It is going to be a slow erosion [of legacy telephony] over 15 to 20 years,' said McHugh, VP of HP's Pro-Curve networking.
He predicted that by 2010 10Gbits/sec links to the desktop over copper lines would be available to a privileged few, but 1Gbits/sec would be sufficient for most links between company premises and metropolitan trunk lines.
Mobile roaming will be 'transparent and robust' and video calling from handhelds will be widely available and largely unused. 'That's because people simply don't want it,' McHugh said.


SMC introduces wireless travel voice gateway for VoIP users
SMC Networks, a technology provider of LAN hardware, broadband connectivity devices and SOHO/home wireless products in India, recently announced the launch of an....