REPORT 2

IP TELEPHONY

Internet Telephony is the latest technology that dazzles both the datacom and the telecom industries. Consumers got excited by the prospect of using a PC and an Internet connection to dial up friends anywhere in the world and talk for hours without ringing up long distances. This is what IP Telephony is!

IP Telephony technology has rapidly enabled the convergence of voice and data networks- launching us in the next generation of communication services.

This report discusses the development challenges and basic system components to implement IP Telephony technology.

In March of 1996, VocalTec announced it was working with an Intel Company (Dialogic Corporation, an Intel acquisition made in 1999) to produce the first IP telephony gateway.

Gateways are the key to bringing IP telephony into the mainstream. By bridging the traditional circuit-switched telephony world with the Internet, gateways offer the advantages of IP telephony to the most common, cheapest, most mobile, and easiest-to-use terminal in the world: the standard telephone.

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