Voice Over Ip

For Those Considering A Nortel VOIP System

Nortel is recognized and trusted by millions of people, Fortune500 companies and governments. It provides communication solutions that enable commerce over the globe and secures and protects the most critical information of the world. Nortel provides technology that includes Voice over Internet Protocol, end to end Broadband, wireless Broadband and multimedia services.

Nortel contains a number of solutions such as those for optical, wireless and voice technologies that empowers world commerce and helps connect underdeveloped and rural regions.

By simplifying the network, cost savings and sustainable revenues are possible. New services are enabled by converged voice and data traffic from the present public network, the internet and private intranets. Wherever data and voice solutions are most important, Nortel solutions are most reliable.

Voice and data services can be delivered to users from a multiservice network because of the ability of the Internet Protocol (IP) to integrate voice traffic into the data flow. Internet Protocol is a packet service on the internet. A two way transmission of voice traffic over the internet Protocol network is enabled with the help of Voice over IP (VoIP). VoIP services transmitted over public internet are termed as "Internet telephony".

The VoIP technology was used in the early 1990's when users could make calls between two specially equipped Personal Computers (PCs) or a normal phone and a PC. This way the callers could save a lot of money on long distance and international calls.

For every conversation circuit switched networks were designed to carry voice traffic. To transport data packet technologies like IP, ATM and Frame Relay were used by service providers and enterprises for the last twenty years. Earlier to transport both voice and data traffic service providers would have to invest in two different networks. Managing, building and maintaining these networks became very expensive. Voice traffic and data flow have been integrated efficiently by the Internet Protocol packet technology used on the internet.

Traditional networks consumed 64 Kilo Bytes per Second (Kbps) whereas the newer voice coder/decoders require only 8 Kbps. The voice quality in the public networks can be matched by the Voice over IP networks. The IP networks have more efficient bandwidth. The performance characteristics that voice service requires and provides are provided by the combined data and voice communications over a single platform.

VoIP services results in sustainable reduction in costs as capital is reduced, and operating costs are also reduced as two separate networks for voice and data are not required. Multimedia call centers that are web enabled, unified messaging, and video calling increases revenues. Enterprise employees can be teamed and encouraged to work together and more efficiently with the help of new applications like collaboration and unified messaging.

Nortel helps people connect with the help of the VoIP technology. It secures computing, applications of the network and end user environments because of its basic understanding of the voice and data network. Voice and data communications combined over a single integrated platform and built on the Internet Protocol technology (VoIP) is the network of the future according to the enterprises and service providers.