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The VoIP Revolution The VoIP revolution is Telecom’s biggest threat ever! In the mid to late 90’s people were tinkering with placing telephone calls over the Internet by developing software to speak into a computer and talk to another person at their computer, known as computer-to-computer phone calls (Skype). Over time, the software became better and more robust and VoIP was born. The next step was to take a plain old telephone and create an analog telephone adaptor, allowing you to plug a standard telephone into your computer and use the phone while not tying up the computer. This was the beginning of the “VoIP Revolution.” The drums are beating for Internet telephony from Washington to Tokyo and from AT&T to Microsoft. It is inevitable; the vendors of hardware, software and services realize VoIP is the dominant transport mechanism for voice calls going forward. All telephone equipment vendors have created IP (Internet protocol) phone systems and stopped making the traditional systems, but do provide support services the legacy products. The big carriers such as AT&T & Verizon have moved to VoIP to transport calls. Sooner or later, traditional phone products and services will be obsolete. AT&T has started the move by asking the Federal Communications Commission to set plans to phase out their landline networks and make high speed Internet the standard to carry phone calls. Landline revenue is plunging as people and businesses move to cell phones and VoIP. Internet phone service provides many benefits over traditional phone service. The first is cost. It costs 1/10 as much to process and support an Internet call verses a traditional call. In addition, the features are software driven, not hard coded and can have phone features not offered with a traditional phone network. VoIP is a relatively new technology and has already achieved wide acceptance and use. The growth of VoIP today can be compared to that of the Internet in the early 1990s. VoIP is here to stay and is the prime candidate to replace the POTS (plain old telephone systems). The revolution is on!
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:30:48 +0000

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