VoIP Applied — Lab Bench to Multimedia Service

Voice is an integral element of many of the emerging conversational IP applications found on the Internet. This paper examines the opportunities to provide these types of application at scale and considers some of the difficulties in translating what may be interesting toys on the laboratory bench into genuinely useful public communication services. It characterises early VoIP network service solutions, charting their evolution towards contemporary services and considers some of the types of application that may be possible in the future.