It can be integrated with the other services on the internet such as video conferencing, messages exchange, IP multimedia subsystems and audio conferencing. Voice over IP is specifically popular in all over the world for making the long distance calls.
If you have a computer, speaker, microphone and the broadband internet connection that you can make free phone calls in all over the world by using the VOIP networks. But it is not free if you want to use it away from your computer.
But the paid service is usually much cheaper than the phone calls. There are many internet web applications like netmeeting, Skype and Cooltalk that you can use to make the free internet calls. Internet telephone is highly dependent on your network infrastructure and the internet connection.
Delay, packet loss, bad sound quality and the unreliability can pose problems for the internet telephone applications. It is important that your network must handle the extra voice traffic during the peak internet hours.
Additionally you should be able to determine the bandwidth of your network and the simultaneous calls. Voice Over IP calls can be placed to the other VOIP devices or applications and the PSTN networks.
These calls are known as PC to PC and PC to Phone calls. The following are the most common challenges to the VOIP network.
- Bandwidth
- Packet Loss
- Network Latency
- Jitter
- Security
- Reliability
Before implementing the VOIP for your organization you need to know the common challenges to this technology and how to deal with these challenges.