What is Voice/Data Convergence?
Voice/data convergence is a relatively new technology that one-ups traditional telephone communication. With the classic public switched telephone network, a pair of central telephone office switches handle, code, decode, and clean up the signals transmitted between a pair of telephones. In simpler terms, it’s a round-about process with a whole lot of silent space or wasted bandwidth. Convergence technologies, also known as VoIP, internet telephony, and packetized voice, eliminate that wasted resource by bundling voice into packets of data. CompTIA Convergence+ training will teach you how voice packets can be sent alongside video and data packets.
Related Questions
- Convergence of voice and data networks can make communications more vulnerable (single point of failure - SPF, opens voice to data network security issues); what can be done about that?
- Can a voice/data IP network be as reliable as traditional circuit-switched voice networks?
- What is Voice/Data Convergence?
