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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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Traffic Partition For VoIP
IP telephony is a method of revising voice signals into digital IP packets and sending it through cyberspace to the final destination. Bandwidth partitioning for digital packets can be done dynamically. As users get active in traffic class, sub-partitions are created on the fly.
Everything has been changing in the Telecommunications industry in the past few years except one – Innovation. It has enforced conceptualization and implementation of ideas, one after the other. Successful implementation of one idea has led to the advantageous enforcement of another. The trend continues and who knows what we are going to see in future.
IP Telephony is one of the big ideas that have left a huge imprint in the industry. Popularly known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), it is a method of revising voice signals into digital IP packets and sending it through cyberspace to the final destination. A cost effective method of communication, VoIP technology is fast advancing. As it runs on server, it can be integrated with other applications, bringing in a host of other lucrative benefits.
Digital VoIP packets, sent via the Internet, require a certain amount of bandwidth in order for the transmission quality to be acceptable. Traffic partition for the VoIP class manages the aggregate traffic and the concurrent flows for the class. The partition is combined with a rate policy which defines a minimum rate for each flow. This ensures that VoIP always has enough bandwidth to support the multiple flows during a session. In absence of this reserved chunk of bandwidth, the conversation would be choppy.
Bandwidth can be assigned to digital packets dynamically. As users get active in traffic class, sub-partitions are created on the fly. This technology allows service providers the ensure for users a minimum amount of bandwidth at all times. This strategy is efficient when a small number of users will be active in any given time period. For instance, a service provider has 30,000 customers with a couple of thousand users logged on at a given time. With dynamic partition technology, subpartitions are automatically created for users as they log on. To accommodate new users when the upper limit is reached, the older non-active subpartition is removed releasing the bandwidth for active users.
You can also create static partitions. This kind of partition allows an aggregate traffic class to use a defined amount of bandwidth. Static partition ensures a specific amount of bandwidth for every digital packet and limits traffic to the same level. There is one more option called a burstable partition. It allows an aggregate traffic class to use a defined amount of bandwidth, and to access additional unused bandwidth, if required.
All partitions are hierarchical, which means that partitions can contain subpartitions. The approach enables application management for multiple groups, which can be controlled as a whole. For instance, a service provider can allocate different amounts of bandwidth for a particular application to various user groups. The basic concept for hierarchical partitions is that child partition minimums are limited to the parent partition. When the sum of the child partitions exceeds the minimum size of the parent partition, the child partitions are scaled proportionately.
For information regarding how to switch partitions, it is advisable to consult a VoIP technology expert. They have expertise in Hosted / Partitioned Softswitch technology, well versed with VoIP interconnection of gateways and switching.
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Voip Can Change Your Office Ambience
Does it sound strange when I say that VoIP can change your office environment? How can an advanced communication tool do it? There are many factors attached to it. I am going to explore this only in this article. Communication and office environment is connected because apart from gestures, communication is the major interaction tool in-house as well as with the clients. Office is dead without communication.
VoIP allows communication in much more effective way. I am here to discuss four most effective ways in which VoIP can maximize your office output. It can provide you quiet corporate environment with high productivity. Here are the four ways…
• Sales person is no more glued to office desk
With VoIP, sales person gets the freedom to move. There is no need to stay in office if there is any particular important call is expected. There is more to do now for the sales person which can prove to be very efficient for your company. The concerned sales person can now handle the new customers as well as deal with the existing clients with the help of callback service. If he gets the customer, he can deal with it there and then while taking the toll on client as well. • Extensions through switchboards
VoIP allows you to have extensions and you can spread it throughout the office. If there is any call for someone is particular and the concerned person is in meeting…he can be intimidated with the help of extensions. All the manager now needs to do is to dial the concerned person's extension. Existing switchboards with enabled voice mail messages can prove a boon to your company. Wireless communication as required by the sales person and others will now be a reality.
• Enhanced in house communication
People will be connected to each other in a better way with the help of VoIP. There are some things which cannot be discussed on chat and need the person being present on the call. VoIP enables that. You can also forward the calls to your cell phone and make use of VoIP Cellular. This way the important calls will not be missed and your clients would not move to your competitors. The service representative can also move to your repair room and discuss the problem with you.
• Quiet & corporate like environment
With VoIP, you get distraction free environment very much similar to the corporate houses' environment. Loud speakers can be much of distraction at times. An effective way to deal with this problem can be to switch off the phone and get the voice mails in front of your eyes and ears the moment you open it. It will be dependent totally on your convenience. Switchboard problems will be relieved and you will be relieved in accordance with that.
Go hand in hand with VoIP and make the most of the above mentioned benefits.
Wake Up To the Call of Voip ...
The world around you and you yourself get connected to it only if you take each step parallel to the progress of the mankind. We have been doing it since ages and this is only way to keep making advancements. Each one of us has been a witness to the change in communication needs and accordingly changes in the modes of communication.
We have never taken a step back with respect to communication needs. There was a time when there used to be only single telephone in the whole household. In those times, it proved to be sufficient and there was need of no more. Being witness to the escalating needs of the mankind, there was higher demand of the communication modes with improved voice quality. The mobile phones then made an entry which let each member of the family to possess one.
Gradually, in a hidden way, mobile phones became our necessity and it became impossible to think our lives without them. Life was going on a smooth path and entry of internet made it more complex. People started with other successful modes of communication like chatting, social networking etc. The monopoly of mobile phones now became shared.
Internet had become a part of the lives of people. People stuck to it like the glue. People demanded the usage of internet so much that communication somehow got connected to it. It made possible the cheaper calling with enhanced voice quality.
Long before internet was a part of the home schedule, it already dominated the office schedules. All types of work no matter small or big were completed with the help of the internet. With such high usage of internet, a thought cropped in the mind of technicians to make use of the net to make their calls as well. This single thought dominated the IT market year after. Both domestic and professional spaces were encroached upon by the VoIP and later modernised version called VoIP cellular.
The obsession of people with mobile phones made it possible to get everything before them while they were on their way. In the 21st century, no space is supposed to exist for the unproductive things. It is human tendency to keep updating themselves and their technology with the latest developments in society. The advent of VoIP demanded the same and it was then possible to avail the service of callback service as well.
Callback service means that once you hung up the call, the service provider will call you once again and it will be possible then to make or rather receive the calls at much cheaper rates. Life has stopped to be a struggle in the contemporary times and when it is tagged as luxury, it must make the most of it.
VoIP may finally be on firm ground - Voip CALLS
People often look towards America to gain a litmus test of how an industry is progressing. The US folks seem to be pretty good at taking the temperature of an industry or sector and making some assumptions around its likely success and future. The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project recently reported that almost one-quarter of Internet-using American adults have made telephone calls on the Internet via a service such as Skype, Vonage or MO-Call. The figure showed sharp increase over the last time Pew polled people on this question though this year was the first time Pew worded the question to offer Skype [sic] as an example of such a service.
What can VMNO take away from this latest comment on the health of VoIP? The first lesson is VoIP is now being defined by the leading and well-known Brands. This is certainly good news if you are one of the well funded VoIP companies spending some advertising dollars on having your Brand as a recognized verb around your technology. The prize is there for those that execute the technology well and spend some money in support of a growing global opportunity.
The second lesson may be that as a global demographic we are now ready to absorb this new way of calling. Over the last couple of years we have all endured a financial crisis that affected us all. We are now interested in the measure of cost/utility and wanting more for less. Alternative calling (VoIP) does this very well.
The third lesson and perhaps the greatest indicator of a moving continuum is the interest around Internet triggered calling, and web based communication generally. Providing services around this new paradigm demonstrates a willingness and competency to support the ‘socialness' of the Internet. The web has always been social, it is this by design. Communication in 2011 must be interactive if it is to be sought out and used. So what is interactive communication? It is that part of the communication that adds intelligence to the thread. That means that VoIP providers can support social networks and provide these portals with telephony and communication services around their interests and content.
The final lesson just may be that the incumbent mobile network operators, with all their combined financial power are just no match for a world of converging technology and converging competitive landscape where once friendly companions are now aggressive combatants
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