Voice over Internet Protocol
VoIP stands for “Voice over Internet Protocol”, or we can say “Broadband phone service” because it is referred to change the world of telephony. The traditional phone lines are providing facilities to households and businesses of all over the world embrace the features and benefits that VoIP technology is offering. As this development accelerate, it is valuable to look at the history of VoIP. Every one wants to see the future of VoIP more interesting and exciting then the history of VoIP.
Vocaltec
The VoIP technology started on 1995, when a very small company named “Vocaltec” released the software of internet phone software. This internet phone software was designed for a home PC, or for the PC phones, which we use these days; the three things were used in the software that are sound cards, speakers and microphones. The software was named “Internet Phone” and instead of the SIP protocol, it used the H.323 protocol, which is more prevalent these days. Earlier “Vocaltec” had succeed with “Internet Phone”, and in 1996, it had a successful IPO. In the mid of 90s it lunged the Skype. In 1995, people observeed a major problem of lack of availability into the broadband of IPO. The modem, which is used in this software, was resulted as a poorer voice quality in cooperation to the ordinary telephone call. So it was a major milestone to represent the first ever “IP Phone”. It is also valuable to mention that one of “Vocaltec’s” key workers is also the founder of “Whichvoip.com”.
VoIP traffic
In 1998, the traffic of VoIP had developed to represent approximately one percent of all voice traffic in the US. Industrialists were joining the source and were forming devices, which facilitates “PC-to-phone” and “phone-to-phone” communication. The networking producers such as Lucent and Cisco introduced equipment, which could switch and route the VoIP traffic, as the result in the year 2000, “VoIP traffic” reported more than three percent of all the voice traffic.
Further, in 2005, the issues of the major voice quality have addressed and “VoIP traffic” can be prioritized over the data traffic to unbroken telephone calls, guarantee reliable and clear sounding. The profits from Voice over Internet Protocol equipment sales are probable to reach approximately $3 billion in this year as well as being predicted to be above $8.5 billion by the end of year 2008. This is mainly being driven by “low-priced unlimited calling plans” and the plenty of enhanced as well as useful telephony features connected with the VoIP technology.
This is an unusual change and with the quick introduction of Video over Internet Protocol, the future of this technology would be really exciting and would enable us to enjoy the products, which our grandparents and yet parents never considered to be possible.
