Better Security and QoS Critical to Drive Uptake of Voice, Video, and Data over IP.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Unlike data, media content is mission critical and reaffirms the need for adequate security arrangements for protection against viruses, worms, hacking, eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room. , and denial of services among other vulnerabilities. Vendors need to give top priority to security and quality of service (QoS) related issues in order to ensure widespread deployment of IP-enabled devices. If you are interested in a virtual brochure, which provides manufacturers, end-users and other industry participants an overview of the latest analysis of the Emerging Developments in Voice, Video and Data over IP -- then send an email to Mireya Castilla -- Corporate Communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. at mireya.castilla@frost.com with the following information: your full name, company name, title, telephone number, fax number, and email. Upon receipt of the above information, an overview will be sent to you via e-mail. "Since end users give very little importance to the underlying network, IP functionalities need to have a QoS, which is on par or better than that is available over traditional telephony networks," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst V.R. Yoges. Traditional telephone networks use a dedicated end-to-end connection for the entire duration of a call. On the other hand, IP networks allocate resources through statistical multiplexing See statistical multiplexor. . "This method of using permutations and combinations permutations and combinations: see probability. permutations and combinations Number of ways a subset of objects can be selected from a given set of objects. In a permutation, order is important; in a combination, it is not. in allocating the resources leads to optimal utilization of network resources at the cost of overall QoS offered to the end users," explains Yoges. In order to guarantee better QoS, vendors must pay close attention to delay, jitters jitters 'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics , and the packet loss experienced in a network. In addition, transfer of calls between two networks must be without disruption in a seamless manner. Incidentally, current research and development (R&D) efforts in the field of IP capabilities are directed toward security, QoS, and bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager. . This trend is likely to continue in the future. There are consolidation activities between small and large firms to spur on research into IP capabilities. Although North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe are current hotbeds for research activities, areas rich in intellectual capital such as Asia Pacific and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. hold immense potential. Standardization efforts are also gathering steam. While value-added features are offered through proprietary know-how commonly used features and interfaces are mostly standards based. "SIP and H.323 are vying for a place as the standard of choice in IP-enabled devices," says Yoges. "SIP might be the current favorite, but H.323 cannot be underestimated due to the large installed base of H.323-enabled devices both in the carrier and enterprise segments." Apart from standardization, it is essential to generate awareness regarding the productivity benefits of IP functionality. For instance, despite the steep capital expenditure, IP has the potential to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ) over its economic useful lifetime. Various combinations of available standards for voice/video over IP also offer a multitude of features such as instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , presence, click-to-call, push-to-talk, ad-hoc conferencing, and voice over Wi-Fi Transmitting IP-based telephone calls (VoIP) over a Wi-Fi network. Voice over Wi-Fi (Vo-Fi) provides enhancements to the 802.11 standards for handling the real time environment of voice calls. With a single mode Vo-Fi phone, users can make calls only within a Wi-Fi hotspot. . These attributes expect to provide a significant competitive advantage to both carriers and enterprises. Emerging Developments in Voice, Video and Data over IP is part of the D358 subscription, and examines the global trends and developments in next-generation IP capabilities. It analyzes the key technology drivers, and evaluates the challenges that must be overcome for each novel IP-enabled application to realize its full potential. 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