The History of VoIP, which you must know

VoIP History 

VoIP is the fastest growing technology. Where did all this technology came from and how it is developed? Lets go back into time and find out all this things. But before this, If you are unknown about the VoIP and its working process, simply click the highlighted text.

  

Pic: Analog Switching system for PSTN during 1960

In 1973, Motorola made the first phone call using cellular technology to Bell Labs. Now after the cellular technology, VOIP story actually started in the summer of 1974, when the ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency)  sent a 16 kb/s real time voice sample between computers based at the information Sciences Institute and the Lincoln lab, United States. 

In the preceding year, there was no much more influence and growth of broadband Internet, So this has been the major influence in the VoIP. But in back 1995, the Vocaltec, software company achieved the initial success with Internet phone and delivering VoIP software application. This have been the breakthrough in the growing of voice over IP.  

In 1998, in USA alone , 1% of all calls was done through VoIP. By 2000, this percent have been increased to 3%.  

In the later years, with the surplus increase in broadband connectivity , VoIP market have been rampant increase.  In 2004, VoIP telephony had begun with the introduction of VoIP calling plans, which is similar to telephone company and using PSTN. Very low rate, offer and discount have heavily increase the market of VoIP. But with increasing VoIP services, many telecom operators have been been faced  loss in millions of dollars monthly due to call bypass and terminating the call without the use of operator gateway. So some country, still have set the VoIP illegal.