ZyXEL Communications 2602HWNLI-D7A What advantage does Voice over IP can provide?, What is codec?

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What advantage does Voice over IP can provide?

The advantage of VoIP is it can provide advance services such as joining e-mail, instant messaging, video, voice mail all together. Where current circuit switching (PSTN) can not.

What is the difference between H.323 and SIP?

H.323 and SIP are proposed by different group Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a standard introduced by the Internet Engineering Task Force in 1999 to carry voice over IP. Since it was created by the IETF, it approaches voice and multimedia from the Internet, or IP, perspective of view. Where as H.323 emerged around 1996, and as an International Telecommunication Union standard it was designed from a telecommunications perspective. Both standards have the same objective - to enable voice and multimedia convergence with IP protocols.

Can H.323 and SIP interoperate with one another?

In interoperability between the two, the industry is making slow but sure progress. Interoperability must first happen between vendor implementations of the same protocol (SIP-to-SIP and H.323-to-H.323) and then between protocols. Currently in order for SIP client to talk to H.323 client the ITSP must have a trunking gateway act as a translator between the two protocols without the truncking gateway the two protocols are not able to communicate to one another.

What is voice quality?

Voice quality is how well a person can hear the voice on the opposite end.

How are voice quality normally rated?

Voice quality is most commonly rated through a voice quality metric called the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) which is recommendation by ITU-T. The MOS is a 5 point scale where 5 represent excellent voice quality and 1 represent bad voice quality.

What is codec?

Codec is a algorithm which converts analog signal into digital signal and vice versa. There are three main type of waveform codec, source codec, and hybrid codec. Each consume different amount of bandwidth and provide different voice quality level.

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