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  2. Voice over IP - Wikipedia

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    Compromised VoIP user account or session credentials may enable an attacker to incur substantial charges from third-party services, such as long-distance or international calling. The technical details of many VoIP protocols create challenges in routing VoIP traffic through firewalls and network address translators , used to interconnect to ...

  3. Common-channel signaling - Wikipedia

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    CCS offers the following advantages over CAS, in the context of the PSTN: [5] Faster call set-up time; Greater trunking efficiency due to the quicker set up and clearing, thereby reducing traffic on the network; Can transfer additional information along with the signaling traffic, providing features such as caller ID; Signaling can be performed ...

  4. Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients

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    Examples of such messaging services include: Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts (subsequently Google Chat), Telegram, ICQ, Element, Slack, Discord, etc. Users have more options as usernames or email addresses can be used as user identifiers, besides phone numbers. Unlike the phone-based model, user accounts on a multi-device model are ...

  5. Videotelephony - Wikipedia

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    Proximity chat is another alternative mode, focused on the flexibility of small group conversations. A more recent technology encompassing these functions is TV cams. TV cams enable people to make video calls using video calling services, like Skype on their TV, without using a PC connection.

  6. H.323 - Wikipedia

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    H.323 call signaling is based on the ITU-T Recommendation Q.931 protocol and is suited for transmitting calls across networks using a mixture of IP, PSTN, ISDN, and QSIG over ISDN. A call model, similar to the ISDN call model, eases the introduction of IP telephony into existing networks of ISDN-based PBX systems, including transitions to IP ...

  7. Public switched telephone network - Wikipedia

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    Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is now predominantly digital in its core network and includes terrestrial cellular, satellite, and landline systems. These interconnected networks enable global communication, allowing calls to be made to and from nearly any telephone worldwide. [1]

  8. Signalling System No. 7 - Wikipedia

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    Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in the 1970s that is used to setup and teardown telephone calls on most parts of the global public switched telephone network (PSTN).

  9. IP PBX - Wikipedia

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    As IP PBX is software, functions and features can be designed based on the customers' requirements such as conference calling, XML-RPC control of live calls, interactive voice response (IVR), TTS/ASR (text to speech/automatic speech recognition), PSTN interconnectability supporting both analog and digital circuits, VoIP protocols including SIP ...