Voice over IP and videoconferencing applications may turn out to be the application that sets these new gaming systems apart.
The whole thing works over IP and with built-in MoCA it'll run over the existing coax cables in your house.
The delivery of voice calls using VoLTE is similar to the voice over IP, or VOIP, phone services offered by many cable and Internet-service providers.
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Evidently two years wasn't long enough to find an acceptable industry standard stack to deliver video over IP, so TiVo and the cable industry requested an extension.
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We were able to communicate, via Radio over IP (RoIP) from a walkie-talkie at the U.S. center to India and England as if they were next door.
The company saw a 14.3% drop in primary residential switched-access phone lines, as consumers continued to move toward voice over IP and mobile devices for most of their voice calls.
Looks like the unsecure rap Voice over IP was getting before is pretty irrelevant now, as the FCC ruled today five to zip that VoIP communications must always be tappable.
"Popular online applications like gaming, Voice over IP (VoIP) and HD video are some of the most sensitive to latency and packet loss over Wi-Fi connections, " said Bigfoot Networks CEO Michael Howse.
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Research carried out by Ofcom suggests few people know that net phone services, aka voice over IP, do not connect to 999 or 112, the European Union's universal emergency number for mobiles and fixed lines.
U-verse continues to drive a transformation in wireline consumer, reflected by the fact that consumer broadband, video and voice over IP revenues now represent 57 percent of wireline consumer revenues, up from 50 percent in the year-earlier quarter.
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The two areas in which the most hand waving has been done are the ability to provide a quality telephone product over the best-effort Internet and the possibility that providing telephone service over IP might be economically feasible.
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The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor responds to this need by delivering a number of industry first innovations: simultaneous 3-microphone processing, optimized Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Mobile Audio Zoom and Super Wideband support for Voice over IP (VoIP), combined with a robust audio codec designed specifically for the newest mobile devices.
This complex, fragmented environment points to ongoing tension and litigation over tech IP.
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Cable operators want to be able to offer the "quadruple play" of communication bundles--Internet, television, voice-over-IP and wireless telephony.
Now, eight months after the voice-over-IP company was officially integrated into Microsoft, a critical mass of privacy activists are demanding answers.
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Cisco's gateway, which underwent a trial in Honolulu, functions similarly but is more hardware-based, complementing its line of network routing equipment and voice-over-IP telephony.
Once the network is built Point One will seek its own commercial customers, offering a broad array of data services available only over an IP network.
Without walking over his IP, his six principles of fomenting contagion nicely packaged in a handy acronym, STEPPS, are Social currency, Triggers, Emotion, Public, Practical value and Stories.
These gateways attach to existing radio networks, telephones and even cell phones, digitizing conversations over an IP network so that people with different devices--and from different departments--can talk to each other.
"Voice-over-IP is a critical component for us, " says Steve Gorman, Cox Communications ' (nyse: COX - news - people ) vice president of product marketing and management for high-speed Internet.
Traditionally sold as a hardware box, a session border controller is designed to handle the heavy lifting required to reliably transmit voice calls and other media over an IP network, while also protecting networks from malicious attacks.
Without this information, investors may fall under a false impression that IP is more profitable than it truly is and could lead investors to over-weight IP in their portfolio.
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Cox Communications is a broadband communications and entertainment company, providing advanced digital video, Internet and telephone services over its own nationwide IP network.
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Cox Communications is a broadband communications and entertainment company, providing advanced digital video, Internet, telephone and wireless services over its own nationwide IP network.
Broadsoft ( BSFT, 39) of Gaithersburg, Md. makes software that enables telecommunications companies to deliver voice and multimedia services over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
Lucent, Cisco and Nortel all keenly focus on the coming shift to IP-over-optical networking, but they hold divergent views on when and in what form it will arrive.
Keep in mind that just about all the major carriers plan to switch their networks to IP networks over the next few years, and that means that many will be turning to Cisco for the equipment they need.
Fortunately, many of the staff of Bondi moved over to the buyer of its IP, and others to Rockstar, the publishers of L.A. Noire.
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We usually view our IP counsel as either over-protective or adversarial.
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