http://fixed-mobileconvergence.net/archives/15 Convergence and Synergy of Voice, Telephony, Network Data, and Video In the Internet Protocol Network Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:38:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://fixed-mobileconvergence.net/archives/15#comment-6 Fixed-MobileConvergence.Net Editor Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:19:23 +0000 http://fixed-mobileconvergence.net/archives/15#comment-6 The most important addition to WiMax + VoIP as a feature set is the addition of Voice Call Continuity (VCC) for dual-mode phones (see http://fixed-mobileconvergence.net ). By providing both WiMax and cellular on a single mobile handset, this allows for both cellular calls and VoIP calls to be seamlessly transferred, which means even more advanced technologies can be created, including voice instant messaging, web browsing click-to-dial, multiple accounts on a single phone, unified communications, etc! It is finally an exciting time for VoIP, especially due to hardware costs for integrating VoIP decreasing, such as softDSP solutions (as noted in this design paper http://www.dspdesignline.com/howto/204803680 ). This is truly what allows hardware cost to decrease for the end user. The most important addition to WiMax + VoIP as a feature set is the addition of Voice Call Continuity (VCC) for dual-mode phones (see http://fixed-mobileconvergence.net ). By providing both WiMax and cellular on a single mobile handset, this allows for both cellular calls and VoIP calls to be seamlessly transferred, which means even more advanced technologies can be created, including voice instant messaging, web browsing click-to-dial, multiple accounts on a single phone, unified communications, etc! It is finally an exciting time for VoIP, especially due to hardware costs for integrating VoIP decreasing, such as softDSP solutions (as noted in this design paper http://www.dspdesignline.com/howto/204803680 ). This is truly what allows hardware cost to decrease for the end user.

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