Concepts in the Communication Industry

The communication industry has created a pile of trendy concepts that are easy to mix:

 

IP voice(VoIP): Transfers telephone calls over IP data networks;

 

IP phone number:VoIP+Traditional PBX functions such as billing and dialing scheme, teleconference, call transfer, forward call transfer, and call persistence;

 

IP communication:IP phone number+Enhance commercial applications of communications, such as unified messaging;

 

Integrated Communication:Technology-oriented interconnection and convergence at the network layer, unified protocols are achieved through various gateways, and various terminals based on different protocols can communicate with each other;

Unified message: Integrate various communication methods (fax, voice, short message, Im, and email) on the same platform...Real-time communication systems that intelligently manage, convert, distribute, and store various types of information. Users can access these different types of messages through a unified interface;

Unified Communication:Further development of integrated communication and unified messaging concepts; focus on people-oriented application layer integration; all businesses can be implemented on the same terminal and interface; Core Protocol is sip

 

 

Refer:

[1] A rough road to Unified Communication past and present http://network.pconline.com.cn/skills/0808/1396919.html

[2]Unified messaging and communication http://www.ctiforum.com in a module Network/

[3]Unified Messaging solution http://uc.microvoip.com