Smart Business - How To Manage Bandwidth Requirements For
Multi-Media Applications
In an enterprise environment, voice and video over IP (VoIP) significantly reduces long distance
telephone charges by transferring all long-distance voice data over the...
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Smart Business - How To Manage Bandwidth Requirements For
Multi-Media Applications
In an enterprise environment, voice and video over IP (VoIP) significantly reduces long distance
telephone charges by transferring all long-distance voice data over the Internet connection.
It also
provides a means for rich multimedia applications converging video, voice and data in a single
session.
Since VoIP shares the Internet connection with other forms of traffic, it must compete with
other applications for network bandwidth.
In order to make VoIP a viable business application for this
scenario, the quality of VoIP should be equal to the traditional PSTN/ISDN voice and video services.
A typical corporate network environment carries a broad mix of data traffic with different bandwidth
needs.
Bursty data applications, such as email and the web, have variable and unpredictable
bandwidth requirements while streaming real-time applications such as voice and video demand
consistent bandwidth allocat
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