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While starting as an experimental research topic in the early seventies VoIP went through different stages before becoming a commodity service competing with the circuit switched telephony and in some cases even replacing it. In this chapter we give a brief overview of the major developments in the area of voice over IP (VoIP) and look at the major milestones and competing standards. We further give a short look into the latest developments and recent applications and deployment scenarios.
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Sisalem, D., Kuthan, J., Ott, J. (2013). A Short History of VoIP Services. In: Bertin, E., Crespi, N., Magedanz, T. (eds) Evolution of Telecommunication Services. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7768. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41569-2_5
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