VoIP Could Replace Traditional Telephony

Traditional telephony may be replaced by newer technology due to an increase in the use of voice over IP (VoIP) in businesses.

Sales of VoIP phones are mainly to businesses, according to In-Stat.

Norm Bogen, vice-president of digital entertainment research at the firm, says the technology allows telephone systems to be used for “more advanced communications.”

However consumers IP phones have yet to reach the consumer market. Apart from technology roll-outs from service providers and the use of Skype, adoption of VoIP technology has been minimal.

He said: “The vast majority of IP phones are sold to businesses.

Consumer VoIP is still mostly ATAs [analogue telephone adapters] or residential gateways [home networking devices] connected to traditional TDM [time-division multiplexing – method by which multiple analogue message signals or digital data streams are combined into one signal, but physically take turns on the channel] phones.”

Mobile VoIP, however is growing rapidly, allowing VoIP communication over Wi-Fi, he added.

Recent research from In-Stat forecasts that IP phone shipments to both businesses and consumers will exceed 40 million units in four year’s time.

PlanetMagpie is also seeing growing demand for VoIP services in 2011, alongside cloud computing.

The IT consulting and web services provider says 43 per cent of organisations plan to utilise cloud computing and virtualisation in the coming year.

In addition, software-as-a-service, cloud servers and VoIP can help businesses to save costs and be more flexible with IT spending and planning.

Facebook has recently launched an app that utilises VoIP technology.

The Messenger app allows Apple Mac users to chat to their friends on the social networking site for free.

Currently, only available for customers using Apple operating systems, a Windows-friendly version is expected to arrive soon.

The app includes features that allow multi-tasking, photo handling and chat sessions management.

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