Networking and the Internet

Internet Applications:
VOIP

Dr. M. Tanvir Afzal

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What is VOIP

 Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP).

 Internet infrastructure is used to provide
voice communication similar to that of
traditional telephone systems

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VOIP consists of:

 Two processes on different systems

using p2p model.
 No significant issues in p2p as you
might remember

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VOIP Challenges:
 How to initiate and receive call
 Linking VOIP with traditional
telephones.
 Services like 1122, 15.
 Companies consider it as threat to their
business, and have made sure to tax
them heavily from government or
outlawed it completely.
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Existing VOIP Systems:

 VOIP Soft Phones.

 Analog Telephone Adapters
 Embedded VOIP phones
 Wireless VOIP Technology.

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VOIP Soft Phones:

 P2P software on both computers without
any special hardware.
 Skype
 Also provide links with traditional
telephone communication system.
 Drawback: its proprietary, operational
standards are not publically known.

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Analog Telephone Adapters:

 devices that allow a user to connect
his or her traditional telephone to
phone service provided by an access
ISP.
 choice is frequently bundled with
traditional internet service and/or
digital television service

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 Embedded VOIP Phones:

 Devices that replace a traditional

telephone with an equivalent handset
connected directly to a TCP/IP network

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Wireless VOIP Technology:

 Earlier generations of wireless phones
use company’s network, their protocol,
access through gateway between
company’s network and Internet.
 Now 4G phone network is an IP-based
network throughout

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 Summary

Internet Applications: VOIP

 Challenges.
 VOIP Soft Phones.
 Analog Telephone Adapters
 Embedded VOIP phones
 Wireless VOIP Technology.

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