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Gateway platforms that enable Internet telephony service providers to offer residential and
voice packet
business-class services for Internet telephony.
gateway
Voice over IP. The capability to carry normal telephony-style voice over an IP-based Internet with
VoIP
POTS-like functionality, reliability, and voice quality. VoIP enables a router to carry voice traffic (for
example, phone calls and faxes) over an IP network. In VoIP, the DSP segments the voice signal into
frames, which then are coupled in groups of two and stored in voice packets. VoIP is a blanket term,
which generally refers to Cisco's standard-based (for example H.323) approach to IP voice traffic.
X
eXtensible Markup Language. Designed to enable the use of SGML on the World-Wide Web. XML
XML
allow you to define your own customized markup language.
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