Through 2004/05, network architects and strategists should focus on building a network infrastructure that will be optimized for voice, video, and data applications.

The buildout of broadband services is well under way, and today many businesses and homes enjoy affordable, fast Internet access. But as deployment of voice-over-broadband services gains momentum, so ...

However, voice traffic remains circuit-switched on the back end, so organizations won’t see the full benefits of a converged voice/data network. IP’s Advantages IP telephony technology has ...

In the Wide Area Networking newsletter Steve co-authors with Joanie Wexler, the topic last week was the emergence of DSL “Lite” services that provide less bandwidth than traditional asymmetric ...

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Now voice calls travel over the same data network as any other data application. This could change how operators charge for basic voice service as well as other enhanced services.

Phone calls over the LTE cellular data network. Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is a voice over IP (VoIP) service that uses the same IP network architecture as LTE data. Although transmitted in IP packets ...

Voice over LTE is a standards-based technology that is required to support voice calls over an LTE network. Why is VoLTE necessary? This technology is necessary mainly because LTE is a data-only ...

For two or three years, vendors have been trying to convince corporate users why sending voice calls over data circuits makes sense. One international service provider has become a believer. Cable ...

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) aims to provide the ability to handle cellular voice calls over LTE. In this post, we take a look at how VoLTE works and how it will affect consumers in the coming years.

Making voice calls over wireless data networks is an area set to take off, analysts predict, though the technology still has some hurdles to overcome. The rise of dual-mode handsets which switch ...

We investigate popular voice call over data apps, including Hangouts, Skype, WhatApp and Viber, to see which ones consume the most of your data plan. By Robert Triggs April 3, 2015 ...