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The commercial impact of VoIP was felt first in LANs since, compared to the Internet, bandwidth was high and jitter low. In 2003 IP telephone station shipments exceeded traditional PBX stations.
While you can make calls using a computer running VoIP software, corporate users often use an Ethernet telephone like the one shown to the right. Today nearly all VoIP is done from wired computers. In the future, we expect to see more wireless VoIP using WiFi phones like the one on the far right. |
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VoIP began with hobbyists, and was adopted by price-sensitive users like students and expatriates making calls home. Business users are more likely to stress new applications that integrate voice and other forms of data than cost savings. Here is the video of a VOIP demonstration done at a Cisco partners meeting.
Telephone companies would like to see VOIP subject to the same regulations as they are. Regulated telephone companies must provide:
VoIP is becoming increasingly popular on the Internet as well as the LAN. The established phone companies are arguing that VoIP should be regulated by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) . They feel that VoIP companies should have the same requirements as they do: