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Voice technologies for Internet protocol, digital subscriber line, cable modems and wireless communications are the more advanced substitutes to PSTN voice services. However, the shift away from PSTN can not easily be achieved by telephone service providers since old devices such as traditional circuit-switched central office and toll switches, remote access concentrators and add/drop multiplexers need to be reinvented to allow voice calls between the old and new voice networks. In addition, this transition is accompanied by regulatory uncertainty., New multiservice products give ILECs, CLECs and ISPs many ways to provision voice and data services. But what does this mean for enterprise voice customers? A lot of work still [...]

VoiceLAN networking involves the integration of voice and data communications in a single network and applications environment. Linking voice and data communications can enable a company to provide more services, enhance the efficiency of current applications and simplify the general network infrastructure. For a successful implementation of voiceLAN technology, there should be both physical and management integration as well as support from management., Introduction Welcome to the Decisys 1996 Introduction to voiceLAN Networking, a discussion of LAN-based voice networking technologies. An outgrowth of Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), the voiceLAN networking market has experienced [...]

Several factors are responsible for the revival of voice and data convergence as a design issue and a more economic alternative. Telecommunications companies have begun to standardize synchronous optical networks and SDH and incorporated the WDM to increase capacity. Majority of the carriers and PTTs have also used asynchronous transfer mode for their switching requirements. Similarly, the use of the Internet for commercial purposes has resulted in the introduction of public service companies, such as Internet telephony service providers and Internet service providers., Can new technologies, standards and applications are breathe life into an old idea? It makes economic sense to integrate voice and data on the same network. But while this idea [...]

Architects will greatly benefit from the development of voiceware internet technology designed to allows users to directly ask questions of a browser which then locates the necessary information without the need to search through reams of internet files. Software firm Nuance has developed the Voyager browser to act on requests from voice users, produce fast and efficient results, ideal for the world of architectural design.

Like many Internet technologies, Internet telephony -- the use of the Internet to carry voice and fax data to cut down on long-distance phone charges -- started out as a [...]

Joan Rivers' 'can we talk?' query takes on a new meaning with Vocollect Inc.'s new Talkman system. This portable voice-interactive device bridges the gap between human observations and computer data [...]