The Future is Wireless VoIP
VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is a new technology that is truly taking the world by storm. This involves a category of hardware and software that works to enable people to be able to use the Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls.
In simpler terms, it is a way of utilizing the Internet for telephone conversations, with the primary motivations for doing so being cost and convenience. There is also wireless VoIP however, which is definitely an even more specific technology, one that should be something to watch in the future.
VoIP services such as Vonage have already helped by assisting millions of customers around the world to save money on their residential and business phone bills. However, now there is a new and even more reformed stage of VoIP technological development, which is known as wireless VoIP.
Wireless VoIP
Wirless VoIP technology is considered as being able to revolutionize the wireless communication industry, and it is basically VoIP running over a wireless LAN. As long as callers are within the proper range of a WLAN access point and using a VoIP enabled handset, they will be able to make and receive calls over the wireless network.
This wireless VoIP technology is definitely gaining adoption in more areas of the world as time goes on, in particular in certain industries such as health care and retail, where worker mobility is critical to a productive workspace overall.
Concerns
Although there are certainly plenty of benefits offered by this particular VoIP technology, there are some safety concerns as well. For one, risks such as eavesdropping and spam are considered as being major issues here, and there are also various additional security concerns that need to be properly addressed.
If left unsecured during use, third parties would be able to intercept any wireless communications being made, and these third parties would then also be able to gain access to the corporate network and may even masquerade as valid access points, thereby possibly duping users into entering the network via invalid access points.
In today’s wireless VoIP market, vendor proprietary protocols dominate, and these protocols were actually developed and deployed out of necessity, because the international VoIP standards at the time were considered as being not sufficiently mature enough. As long as the same continuous improvements are made on VoIP technology, these sorts of issues can be sorted out in the future and there will be few to no drawbacks to the technology at all.
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