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This paper provides an overview of the history, current status, and underlying technology of ‘Internet telephony’ — the transport of speech information over a packet-switched connectionless network. The economics of Internet telephony and a number of possible system architectures for interconnection with the switched telephone network are examined. The paper concludes with a look at the quality of service issues raised by Internet telephony.
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Babbage, R., Moffat, I., O'Neill, A. et al. Internet phone — changing the telephony paradigm?. BT Technology Journal 15, 145–157 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018601211460
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