Death of a phone system: an Internet viewpoint on computer telephony integration

Author

Olsen, L.M.

fYear

1996

fDate

7-10 May 1996

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

133

Abstract

Computer telephony integration (CTI) holds the promise of changing the way in which we use our phones and computers. The Internet has always been ready for voice, in fact it is already ready for video. It is only now with the introduction of high speed broadband technologies like ATM, 100 Mbps LANs, and FDDI can one introduce this multimedia on the Internet. The author describes the state at which the telephone industry is currently in, including a description of two popular telephony standards; TAPI and TSAPI, why the Internet phone is a prelude of what is to come and finally a high level description of the virtual phone system which has the potential to replace most business phone systems

Keywords

Internet; data communication; telecommunication standards; telephony; voice communication; 100 Mbit/s; ATM; FDDI; Internet; Internet phone; LAN; TAPI; TSAPI; business phone systems; computer telephony integration; high speed broadband technologies; multimedia; phone system; telephone industry; telephony standards; virtual phone system; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication cables; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Delay; FDDI; Internet telephony; Switches; Technological innovation; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Applications in Communications, 1996. Proceedings., First Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7585-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETACOM.1996.502493

Filename

502493