| TCM 233 with Professor Soud |
| Current Event for TCM 233 The Current Event that I found is located at eWeek and deals with Cable and how it is slowly entering the voice-over IP standards. While doing my research I found this web site which shares the telecom news and stories of people and VoIP. |
| Definitions of some words used in the article. |
| VOIP - also known as internet telephony, this is a category of software and hardware that allows people to use the Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls. In other words to use your PC as a telephone. |
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| TCP/IP - stands for Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol - it is the most widely used internet protocol using packet switching technology. This permiots two Internet connected PC's to have a reliable connection. |
| PACKET SWITCHING - In short this eal with messages being divided into packets before they are sent on the network. With the heelp of routers they are sent through to their destination to be recompiled to their original message. Each packet may or may not take the same path. |
| SOFTSWITCH - is a software based solutioon that works with the Public Switch Telephone network in offering faster, better, and cheaper solutions to the hardware based switching centers. |
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| TRUNK LINES - a large bandwidth telephone channel between central switching offices that handle voice and data signals. |
| The article talks about companies teaming up to go ahead with VoIP and cable. The first set of teams that are combining their resources are IBM, of Armonk N.Y. and Narad Networks Inc.The other set of teams are located in Austin Texas and are Advent Networks Inc. and General Bandwitdth Inc. I have included links to their web site page in the event you are interested in viewing their mission and status of their work. The first set of teams are targetting businesses that will provide up to 100 Mbps of transmission speeds on their platform. The other team are making sure that their technologies work together in order to let cable operators use voice lines over existing cable. |
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