Category: Mobile & Wireless

NEC today said that it has made first steps to bring a new technology to market that promises to protect VoIP from “Spam over IP” . In first test, the technology has achieved a 99% success rate, the company claims.

Companies are missing out on the long-term benefits of VoIP because they’re too afraid of the short-term pain of putting in the systems, a new survey has revealed.

The firm that made its name with free net calls is making a grab for the lucrative market of internet TV.

U.S. subscribers to Internet-based telephone services grew 18 percent to 8.2 million in the third quarter, but the growth rate slowed for a second straight quarter, according to the research firm TeleGeography.

In a recent tutorial, VoIP Planet took a high-level view of one of the key technical issues — address translation — that must be resolved in order for end-to-end VoIP services to become widespread and readily available. That translation is required because telephone numbers adhere to one addressing standard, known as E.164, (the International Public Telecommunication Numbering Plan, developed by the ITU-T — see www.itu.int); and Internet-connected workstations use Internet Protocol addresses, developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as part of their protocol specifications for IP version 4 (IPv4) and IP version 6 (IPv6).

This paper is aimed at providing an overview of the initiatives taken and market developments in
VoIP services across OECD countries focusing on an examination of who the providers are and what kind
of features VoIP services are currently providing.