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Does VoIP have any reliability issues compared to traditional telephony?

April 26, 2017reliability Telephony traditional voip

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Does VoIP have any reliability issues compared to traditional telephony?

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VoIP operates via a significantly different transport method to that of traditional telephony, and is a relatively young technology (circa 20 years) when compared to traditional telephony (over 100 years). As a result of these two factors, VoIP suffers from a number of availability issues. These include issues from network congestion, power availability and malicious disruption of services. To learn more about these, see Section X: VoIP Threats: Availability, Page X.