New article on VoIP
Friday, June 17th, 2005
We’ve just added a new article produced by one of our staff, E.B. Randall, to the article collection. If you are interested in VoIP and what some of the technical issues are in implementing broadband phone services, this is a fairly simple introduction.
This particular article doesn’t go into detail regarding NAT and firewall traversal or just exactly what SBCs are and how they work (later we’re planning some more detailed technical information for those interested).
Here’s a short excerpt and a direct link:
VoIP - What is the Problem? — In the beginning, when the Internet Protocol was first designed, no one was thinking about the possibilities of sending audio and video. Real time communication was not an issue. Perhaps the greatest single problem is that the Internet Protocol (the IP part of VoIP - Voice over Internet Protocol) wasn’t designed to ensure that the packets are delivered in the correct order. When information is transmitted using IP, the data is broken up into information packets, each of which is sent separately. The correct sequence of packets is …