The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. However, the term ...

Being able to integrate voice and data is a strong desire of business as well as of residential users. This type of integration is inefficient, however, on the telephone legacy of channelled voice ...

One of the problems with most technologies is that they are jargon filled, and if you don’t know the secret handshakes, you won’t be welcomed into the club. The field of communications is certainly ...

PERTH, AUSTRALIA — codec manufacturer Tieline has confirmed that the new Gateway Multichannel IP audio codec is now available to purchase and is now shipping. The Tieline Gateway is a DSP-based 1RU IP ...

It’s late Tuesday afternoon, and you get a call from one of your show’s producers. There’s an expert guest on the other coast, and he’s planned a long-form interview with her tonight. The studio she’s ...

Internet telephony refers to communications services—voice, facsimile, and/or voice-messaging applications—that are transported via the Internet, rather than the public switched telephone network ...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) last week ratified a standard to improve the quality of voice signals in IP telephony. The ITU said the new standard, G.722.2, dubbed the adaptive ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: VoIP. Voice over IP (VoIP) has exploded in popularity since the first PC-to-PC Internet phone-calling systems were introduced in 1995, as evidenced by the ...

Let me start off by telling a little story to which I m sure quite a few of you can relate. We have a mountain top RPU receiver located in the Verdugo hills (near Burbank, Calif.) that recently went ...