VoIP

Voice over IP or Voice over the the internet protocol is the carriage of voice services via the IP protocol. Because the IP protocol does not have traffic priority mechanisms, there are problems of restructuring received IP packets such that the ensuing audio stream maintains a proper time consistency relative to the encoding. Certain hardware solutions can distinguish VOIP packets and provide priority. Alternately packets can be buffered but this can lead to an overall delay similar to that encountered on satellite circuits. The benefit of using this technology is the need for only one class of circuit connection and perhaps better use of the available bandwidth.