VoIP and Telephony
VoIP technology promises to forever change the way businesses and consumers pay for phone service while transforming business processes as voice systems and data systems converge. On the enterprise level, IP telephony promises to reduce phone costs and enable the integration of phone services with computer network services, such as e-mail. Many experts feel that efficiencies made possible by voice and data convergence will be the real business payoff for VoIP and converged communications technologies.
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