Second Generation IP Telephony "The Enabler Of Next Generation Applications".
First generation IP Telephony adoption has been largely proven in at the infrastructure level, but the real payoff will be delivered at the business applications level through business process improvements.
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The Advent of Second-Generation IP Telephony
Robert Frances Group believes converged voice/data Internet Protocol-based (IP-based) telephony systems have been accepted as the logical successor to traditional time division multiplex enterprise voice telephony systems based on the view of many IT executives.
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VoIP for Calling Card Providers
As voice and data networks continue to converge, the Internet provides calling card vendors with a powerful tool to increase profitability and deliver a broad range of value-added services. By routing telephone calls over IP-based networks commonly known as Voice over IP or VoIP calling card providers can offer significant savings to customers, and build a framework to support other profit-enhancing services, such as universal messaging, voice mail, broadcast faxing, conference calling, and more.
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Converged Network Architecture Overview
This technical white paper presents features and advantages of this architecture and how it can be exploited for the rapid deployment of convergence services over the Internet.
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Wireless Voice over IP Presents New Opportunities, Challenges
The incredible growth of two leading technologies, wireless LAN and voice over IP, has come together to provide an exciting new application, Wi-Fi Telephony.
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IP Telephony Inter-Gateway Protocols
When the IP telephony equipment manufacturers began to move their technologies from the laboratory into the real world, it became clear that the technical challenge of building a scalable network of end devices and gateways was greater than expected.
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Recognize the Difference: Why Telephony Boards Matter in Speech Applications
This white paper describes how the latest generation of advanced telephony boards have been specifically designed to improve accuracy, scalability, system responsiveness and performance to improve the development of optimized speech systems that meet the high expectations of today's demanding users.
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IP Telephony's Today/Tomorrow/Ever?
Voice communication over the Internet debuted in mid-1994 with a shareware program, Internet Voice Chat for simple PC-to-PC connections. Subsequently, the market has evolved into an Internet protocol (IP) telephony market with a number of applications such as voice telephony, voicemail, fax, desktop videoconferencing, application sharing and document sharing.
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IP Convergence for Enterprise Networks
The Internet, when it became a mass market phenomenon in the mid-1990s, changed the direction of the telecommunications industry. It is now the primary driving force for a new generation of integrated network solutions, called IP/Convergence.
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Circuit Extension over IP: The Evolutionary Approach to Transporting Voice and Legacy Data over IP Networks
Inherent in all forms of VoIP is revolutionary change, whereby much of the existing telephony infrastructure will be replaced by novel IP-based mechanisms. Despite the hype, this effort has been more protracted and less successful than initially expected. Today's telephony technology, both those portions that VoIP aims to replace and those to which VoIP must interface, is extremely complex.
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