17 March 2005
The emergence of Voice over IP (VoIP) technology has been hailed as one of the most groundbreaking discoveries ever to affect the telecommunication and home telephone industries.
Together with the convergence of voice over packet-switched IP data networks and IP Telephony, VoIP is rapidly altering tradition forms of telephony but Sian Tudor Jones from Xantus Consulting insists that the relative infancy of these tools must not be ignored.
Ms Tudor Jones is of the opinion that these products do have the potential capacity to offer greatly increased functioning and cheaper communications but they are still developing.
"Implementing VoIP requires attention to many factors including: available bandwidth, Qos/Cos policies, manageability, scalability, functionality requirements, availability (including survivable remote solutions for branch office networks), performance and security," she remarked.
"Integration is another key consideration as, inevitably, large enterprise telephony environments often feature heterogeneous, multi-vendor networks with disparate devices deployed for the distinctive needs of their large and small sites."
A number of home phone suppliers in the UK have already introduced VoIP services with a number of additional suppliers reportedly nearing completion of competitive products of their own.
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