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VoIP (voice over IP - that is, voice that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary
delivered using the Internet Protocol) is a telephone service
term used in IP telephony for a set of VoIP is therefore telephony using a
facilities for managing the delivery of voice packet based network instead of the PSTN
information using the Internet Protocol (IP). (circuit switched).
In general, this means sending voice
During the early 90's the Internet
information in digital form in discrete
was beginning its commercial spread. The
packets rather than in the traditional circuit-
Internet Protocol (IP), part of the TCP/IP
committed protocols of the public switched
suite (developed by the U.S. Department of
telephone network (PSTN). A major
Defense to link dissimilar computers across
advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is
many kinds of data networks) seemed to delays (due to congestion), disconnection,
have the necessary qualities to become the low quality (both due to lost and out of order
successor of the PSTN. packets) and incompatibility .Vocal Tec’s
The first VoIP application was Internet phone was a significant
introduced in 1995 - an "Internet Phone". An breakthrough, although the application's
Israeli company by the name of "VocalTec" many problems prevented it from becoming
was the one developing this application. The a popular product. Since this step IP
application was designed to run on a basic telephony has developed rapidly. The most
PC. The idea was to compress the voice significant development is gateways that act
signal and translate it into IP packets for as an interface between IP and PSTN
transmission over the Internet. This "first network
generation" VoIP application suffered from
Requirements of a VoIP
The requirement for implementing an IP identify the fundamental requirements in the
Telephony solution to support Voice over IP general case and is split into 3 sections:
varies from organization to organization, Software Requirements
and depends on the vendor and product Hardware Requirements
chosen. The following section aims to Protocol Requirements
Software Requirements
The software package chosen will reflect the organizational needs, but should contain the
following modules as defined in the Technology Guide Series - Voice Over IP Publication, and
other sources.
The call control part of H.323 sets up the general the higher the quality the greater the
parameters for the full duplex voice path bandwidth required
between source telephone and destination During the call setup portion of H.323 the
telephone. I will continue with my analogies phones have to decide which speech
to explain how your voice gets transported encoder/decoder to use when they send the
across the Internet. speech to the other phone, Bill and Sally
In terms of H.323 there is a trade off both have phones that support G.723.1,
between call quality and bandwidth, in G.711 and G729.
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