In the business world, there is the VoIP of today. At the Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center at Texas A&M University, there is the VoIP of tomorrow. Through this facility, Cochair of ITEC’s Internet2 Voice Over IP Working Group Walt Magnussen spends his time and government money developing future voice-over-IP technologies. “The working group is focusing on VoIP reliability issues, interoperability testing and potential disaster recovery capabilities of VoIP,” he says, adding that “many of the capabilities that we are now testing will soon be standard product offerings.”In the meantime, Magnussen and his colleagues are studying new aspects of VoIP. One project revolves around a recent open-source protocol dubbed Session Initiated Protocol (SIP), a signaling protocol developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. As Magnussen explains it, this new protocol is a hybrid of traditional HTTP and simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) that transfers data even faster than the current H.323 protocol standards in place today. Primarily used for VoIP, SIP also works for video or any other digital media type. According to Magnussen, enterprise customers will most likely use this technology to deliver services such as videoconferencing and remote blackboarding over VoIP down the road.“In the last few years, there was debate over whether H.323 or SIP would win out,” says Magnussen, who is also director for telecommunications at Texas A&M. “Here, we are already preparing for the next phase?SIP will win.”The group is also looking at VoIP’s role in disaster recovery. “Much of the Working Group’s disaster recovery efforts began after technologists at Columbia University were able to make calls out of New York City on Sept. 11 using the Internet2 network and VoIP,” he says. “This began some work that looked at the possibility of routing calls around congested telephone networks in disaster situations over reliable packet-based networks.” Related content BrandPost The future of trust—no more playing catch up Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT By Eric Chien, Director of Security Response, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom Mar 31, 2023 5 mins Security BrandPost TCS gives Blackhawk Network an edge with Microsoft Cloud In this case study, Blackhawk Network’s Cara Renfroe joins Tata Consultancy Services’ Rakesh Kumar and Microsoft’s Nilendu Pattanaik to explain how TCS transformed the gift card company’s customer engagement and global operati By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Cloud Computing IT Leadership BrandPost How TCS pioneered the ‘borderless workspace’ with Microsoft 365 Microsoft’s modern workplace solution proved a perfect fit for improving productivity and collaboration, while maintaining security of systems and data. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Microsoft Cloud Computing BrandPost Supply chain decarbonization: The missing link to net zero By improving the quality of global supply chain data, enterprises can better measure their true carbon footprint and make progress toward a net-zero business ecosystem. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 2 mins Retail Industry Supply Chain Green IT Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe