Voice over IP and videoconferencing applications may turn out to be the application that sets these new gaming systems apart.
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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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.
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"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.
"The chairman has done the voice over IP industry wonders, " says Jeff Pulver, chief executive of Free World Dialup , a VoIP service provider which in February was the subject of one of Powell's salutary FCC rulings.
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 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.
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.
"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.
Broadsoft ( BSFT, 39) of Gaithersburg, Md. makes software that enables telecommunications companies to deliver voice and multimedia services over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
By 2012, high-speed Internet over a cable connection which supports voice as one of several IP-based applications was available to 93 percent of U.S. households.
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