Voice over Internet Protocol

Yes, and ATM networks have been chopping 'my words' into little pieces and sending them on their way for quite some time... That's kind of how data networks work hey? The point is that voice data, is now just that, data; and travels over one network. No more need for a separate voice and data network...

A single network may be more economic to manage and run, but its not magic. You still need to have capacity on your network for voice, and you need to reserve capacity so that your voice calls can be handled with a higher priority than people writing with online bulletin boards:) or downloading pr0n movies. You might need VLANs, QoS, expensive new network switches supporting L3, separate voice network, Snake Oil, Tomaytos tomartos. VoiP is rather more than packets of words.
 
Voip can save you lots of money if it's correctly applied, there is even voip over cellphone fring, not that mtn likes that idea at all!
 
Those packets are then uncompressed and reassembled at the receiving end - the trick being to get them there quickly so there's no delay making the call, and in the right order, so that the person you're calling doesn't just hear gibberish.
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So THAT explains it. Most helpdesk persons (and politicians) packets obviously arrive in random order!
 
It would be interesting to get some stats on the number of VOIP users in South Africa, both private and business. But then again Telkom, would want shut it down somehow.
 
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