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Hot-swappable - http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/33371.htmlTECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT:Ensuring Quality of Service on VoIP NetworksBy David Halperinwww.TechNewsWorld.com,Part of the ECT News Network"Users of VoIP demand comparable call quality to their traditionalphone systems," John Siliquini, Cortec's CTO, toldTechNewsWorld. "Maintaining a network to support 'real-time' networktraffic, such as voice, is a whole new ball game for the averagenetwork administrator."Like most countries boasting modern telecommunications systems,Australia has been implementing Voice over IP (VoIP) services. After aslow start, what began as a mild flirtation is now becoming anembrace, although use of VoIP technology is still in relatively earlystages compared with market expectations.Talk Is Cheap, But Is It Clear?It may be flexible, and it certainly is less expensive thanconventional telephony, but VoIP technology still has some issues,such as erratic quality of service. Some of this unevenness may resultfrom use of general-purpose Internet networks, which can be subject todelays in packet delivery that don't affect static content but cancreate problems for real-time data streams."There are literally hundreds of new companies that have come from anIT perspective and have never been really with voice, but are nowlooking at all sorts of new opportunities," Budde notes.One such company is Cortec Systems, based in Australia's secondlargest city, Melbourne. Cortec is developing a product -- for whichit has recently secured AUD$6 million (US$4.6 million) inventure-capital backing -- which it says can guarantee a quantifiablelevel of service for any given VoIP call.Full story at:http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/33371.html
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