Embedded Systems : Voice over IP

Voice over IP
By EE Times
May 6, 2002 (11:16 a.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020503S0091

Voice services build out from network core
Most consumers do not reach for their computer mouse when they want to make a telephone call, and even if they do, the resulting conversation is often disturbed by peculiar speech delays. That may give the impression tha t voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology still has far to go before it represents a challenge to the age-old telephone system. But the contributors to this week's In Focus section paint a very different picture of where Internet and local-network voice technologies are headed.