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VOIP or internet telephony has become one of the technologies that has been completely accepted and embraced by the business sector worldwide. In fact, VOIP is slowly replacing the more traditional landline phone calls. But VOIP calls have a disadvantage that may be crucial enough to heed if used for business.
VOIP, unlike traditional phone calls, is very vulnerable to eavesdropping. Because calls go through the LAN or WAN or on the internet, interception is quite easy to do if you know what you’re doing and if the connection is not very secure. Companies should be aware of this weakness and should act accordingly.

VOiP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) the new trend in communication technology is gaining grounds. All over the world, this technology is being introduced and is now widely accepted all over the world. In France, voice traffic from fixed-line phones ends up traveling over VoIP . It comprises about 25 percent of their voice traffic. In Canada, demand is increasing because one of 12 Canadians is using a VoIP service. USA and Japan has half as many VoIP users. New features are becoming available besides the rise in user mobility and with video coming along for the ride? Economics and features where and/or ease of use tied Consumer VoIP users

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by: Djai Tanji

One of the VoIP’s inconveniences is the quality of call. And quality issues regarding calls is unacceptable however, inevitable in business installing and using VoIP like call centers. In order to fix and analyze the issues in call quality, these businesses use a method and system called VoIP Call Monitoring also known as Quality Monitoring. It uses a hardware and software solution to analyze quality problems and rate them over VoIP phone networks. Through Call Monitoring, the quality of service is determined and tested. With the use of several mathematical algorithms, call monitoring’s hardware and software can assess and evaluate the quality of VoIP calls and produce a score (Mean Opinion Score or MOS) that is responsible for measuring the quality.

Today when organizations are distributed at various locations, getting everyone together is a bit difficult at times. For instance, in case of most of the organizations, sometimes half of the team of a company would be based somewhere in the US, and half in some other part of the world. In such cases, web conferencing is a savior! Web conferencing technology is now a mainstream medium through which individuals or groups can meet face-to-face in real time to interact.

Web conferencing technology supports sharing of slides (PDF and PPT), video, whiteboard, chat, voice using Asterisk PBX, and desktops.

Web Conferencing features include the following:
• Asterisk based web conferencing allows instantaneous conference calling where the user can select any group of contacts, or any e-mail or calendar appointment and automatically initiate a conference call to all the recipients
• Web conferencing allows to join the Asterisk VOIP based voice conference from within the client using a built-in SIP phone
• Hosted Asterisk based web conferencing allows chat with other users including private chat
• Web conferencing facilitates to view the presenter’s slides and cursor
• It helps share a video stream (webcam) with other participants
• Web conferencing also facilitates uploading of slides (PDF or any office document supported by Open Office)
• In web conferencing, the presenter can mute or eject listeners from the voice conference. In web conferencing, the presenter can share their desktop (yes, even on Linux).

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Words are going around about the most recent fight of WiMax against an Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP) named Buzz Broadband. Buzz Broadband did the Wi Max rollout and during the conference, call it a disaster. According to Airspan, the hardware supplier, the ISP was cheap and their deployment was under provisioned. According to the news, the ISP operator is unwilling to invest enough money to bring an outside expertise. Doubts are spreading around whether WiMax will still push the project through as the vendor (Airspan) and the ISP is no longer on speaking terms and an Australian WiMax operator branded his experience publicly as disaster 34

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Microsoft now joined the VoiP race. This summer Microsoft will release not a Windows software but a VoIP System to be called Microsoft’s Response Point Small Business VoIP system. There will be a Service Pack to Response Point which will add SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunking and click-to-call. This service pack is for phone systems that run its Response Point communications software for small businesses. This Service Pack 1 for Response Point will add the capability to the Voice over Internet Protocol functions. Microsoft said that this system will not only provide patches to the VoiP system but new features and functions as well.

by: Djai Tanji

Voice over the Internet Protocol uses the internet’s packet-switching facility in providing phone service. Over circuit switching, Voice over the Internet Protocol has numerous benefits. Like for instance, packet switching permits several phone calls to occupy the number of spaces in a circuit-switched network. With its data compression, the size of calls are reduced thus it can fit into the single call space. Plus, data networks already recognize such technology. By using the technology, telephone networks instantly modified their system to communicate as how computers do. But it might still take a longer time, maybe a decade, for the communication companies to fully switch into VoIP.

An internet communications company, Raketu, introduced their new web application, which is specifically made for the
Blackberry users of the BlackBerry Curve, 8800 and Pearl product series. On top of its numerous features, this new web application Raketu will enable users to make free calls and send SMS text messages worldwide.

“With over twelve million users of the BlackBerry worldwide, the introduction of our Raketu BlackBerry Application marks our definitive entry into the mobile business market,” said Greg Parker, president and CEO of Raketu, in a recent press release. “For businesses whose employees initiate a significant number of international calls from their BlackBerry mobile devices, Raketu’s BlackBerry Application is a great way to reduce monthly calling costs.”