Voice communication, as we know it in the modern age, was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876- the Telephone.From the beginning of Humanity, people are in a constant search for communication methods - cave drawings, smoke signals, letters, telegraph, telephone and so forth. Voice was and still is one of the most preferable forms of communication.
The idea of voice and data integration is as old as the Internet - Why not use the huge cyber world not only for data transferring but utilize the infrastructures for Voice communication transfer.
So what is VoIP? The base idea is unifying voice and data onto a single network infrastructure - by digitizing the voice signals, convert them into IP packets and send them through an IP network together with the data information, instead of using a separate telephony network.
The Voice over IP technology today
Voice and data integration has numerous benefits: smooth information transfer between various stations (computers, telephones, and faxes), significant cost saving by reducing networks size and number, increase productivity and efficiency through the technological advantages and more.
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VoIP changes the voice communication philosophy - the revolution is at its height and voice communication philosophy is about to change forever!
VoIP products that are changing the world of personal communication.
The idea of Convergence is not unique only to voice but can be applied for any media that must run in real time conditions (low delays, packet timing) as video or fax communications.
In our project we chose to concentrate in voice over IP networks, but it is important to proclaim that voice and data integration is also relevant to networks with frame relay (VoFR) or ATM (VoATM).
