Traditional telephone calls are routed through a system of telephone cables and stations until it finally reaches the person you are calling. Because the call is routed through so many cables, it costs a lot of money per minute. SIP technology is changing all this. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a peer-to-peer technology that allowsContinue Reading
Typewriters, audio cassettes, LP records, VHS, telegram, snail mail…. just some ideas from the top of my head. What’s common to them all? Well, they are either buried in or on the road that leads to the technology graveyard. Another technology could well have joined them if it was not for VoIP. Yes, VoIP hasContinue Reading
It’s a buzzword you might have started seeing around: IMS, or IP Multimedia Subsytem [wikipedia], which wikipedia defines as “… a standardised Next Generation Networking (NGN) architecture…” that will be the base for all types of Internet-based services including IM (Instant Messaging), SIP-based VoIP, FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) for cellular services (such as push-to-talk overContinue Reading
SIP, or Session Initiation Protocol, in a nutshell, is a means of initiating and terminating VoIP calls, to offer functionality similar to regular telephony and more (e.g., video calls). That includes things like ringtones and notification of incoming calls. In regular telephony, “trunk lines” are segmented and carry the calls. PBXes, or Private Branch eXchanges,Continue Reading
Depending on whom you ask, VoIP and IP telephony has probably been around for nearly a decade – the same amount of time that the Internet has been publicly available. And yet, in that time, it has a relatively small penetration in the telecommunications market in terms of consumer (business or individual) use. While theContinue Reading