
Overview
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necessity to either upgrade a network or restrict the use of audio and video
players.
Voice-over-IP
A second emerging application that can result in the restructuring of an existing
network is the transmission of digitized voice over TCP/IP networks. Referred
to as Voice-over-IP (VoIP), this technology is extremely delay sensitive and
does not tolerate lengthy packets transporting data interspersed between
packets transporting digitized voice. Thus, the ability to transmit voice over
IP can require equipment or software that prioritizes packets transporting
voice over those transporting data as well as fragmenting lengthy packets
transporting ...