Interop, the largest conferece and tradeshow for the networking and IT industry, was taken place at Las Vegas last week. All the vendors who supposed to be there were there - no surprise.

In addition to the traditional discussions such as network security, wireless/mobility, data center, VOIP, etc., this conference added some "green" color to catch up the global trend of "green technologies." Basically, the presenters were just trying to show some energy saving equipments and tricks.

While so called the triple play has just started its service to end users, the telecom industry is introducing another new concept: Quadruple Play. It is one step further based on the triple play.  Quadruple Play combines the services of fixed telephony, mobile telephony, internet services, and television/video services (IPTV). It is served using a converged broadband network with or without wire.   

Triple play may refer to two different things depends on who are the service providers.

For traditional telecom service providers, Triple play is the fusion of the services of fixed telephony, mobile telephony and fixed-line internet services: the products started being linked, cross- and up-sold and serviced together.  Triple play is based on the integrated and converged fixed and mobile networks.

Now VoIP-Calls Are Available For Cellular Phones
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 Now Skype is available for Cellular Phones and you can make your VoIP telephone calls from anywhere also when travelling.
 
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I need reasons to buy a softswitch. We have a TDM switch and my Company is looking into a softswitch. What are the features a softswtich has over a TDM switch.

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An expert has released a proof-of-concept program to show how easy it would be for criminals to eavesdrop on the VoIP-based phone calls of any company using the technology.

Called SIPtap, the software is able to monitor multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) call streams, listening in and recording them for remote inspection as .wav files. All that the criminal would need would be to infect a single PC inside the network with a Trojan incorporating these functions, although the hack would work at ISP level as well.

There are millions of VoIP service providers providing services to the customers. So, when you want a VoIP phone service, it may be very difficult for you to find the best VoIP service provider. The following tips will help you to %select the best VoIP service provider. See the reviews - VoIP provider reviews will help you to find out the best VoIP provider. VoIP provider reviews let you know the good and the bad things about the service providers. Once you know about them, you can analyse them and then select the best one for you.

VoIP Phone Service
VoIP Phone service is known among people these days. VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol phone service is a service, which moves your words to the audience through the Internet. Voice is moved between the communicators through IP packets. Speacialized hardware is needed for such phone facility.

Have you heard people talking lately about business voip or pc-to-pc telephony?
Voip or Voice Over IP really changed the world  because it allows everyone to call any place with an Internet connection, exactly in the same way that you can receive your  email anywhere that you can connect to the Internet.

The possibilities are huge although we are still in the very early stages of discovering how Voip will affect our lives.

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