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A Special Report from Telecom Reseller

VOIPandtheInternetofThings

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OIP enabled phones and mobiles have you have to take action. Your refrigerator will an MMS message.
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become key nodes in the Internet of demand to be restocked, and it will let you But communication with the IOT can do
Things (IOT). An increasing number of know on your smartphone. It’s even possible great things for your business as well. The
by Bianca Allery,
Marketing Manager, 3CX
machines and even plain old objects will let that your piano will tell you when you’d better advantage of communication via VOIP
you know via your VOIP enabled device when
finish composing your latest symphony with
enabled devices is that you won’t just receive
information, you’ll be able to interact with
the device that sends it and to take further
action and it all leads to a vast increase in
productivity.
IOT is indeed likely to keep us all busy,
with 24 billion ‘things’ to be connected to the
Internet by 2020, according to a recent study
by BI Intelligence.
That is very fast progress considering that
the phrase “Internet of Things” was only
invented at MIT by professor Kenneth Ashton
in 1999. That was when he first broached
the idea of linking RFIDs to the Internet.
Technically, IOT refers to using small, often
dumb, usually unseen computers attached to
objects. These devices sense and transmit data
about the environment or offer new means of
controlling it.
According to a recent report from MIT, Gear up your PBX
there will be as many ‘things’ connected up
by 2020 as there will be computers, tablets

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unique opportunities for VOIP. VOLTE,
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• Integrated WebRTC based Video Conferencing
video calling solution, is estimated to have
generated 0.5 percent of mobile voice minutes
globally in 2014, according to a report from
Strategy Analytics. This is expected to reach
10 percent by 2018.
Three of the four major wireless carriers in
the U.S. have already committed to deploying
new voice services that will operate over 4G
LTE networks. In some cities such service is
already available from AT&T and TMobile,
and both of these providers are already
preparing VoLTE options where 4G LTE is
available.
With a VoLTE network, call packets are
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