Technology and its developments have come a long way since your typically stone, carved wheel. Two recent emergences of these advancements are Voice Over IP (usually referred to as VoIP) and Very Large Scale Integration (also known as VLSI). While both of these technologies were created recently, both of them are used widely throughout the world. As extraordinary as it may seem, chances are that both of these technology can be easily seen in your typical computer. Everyday, these two wonders grow more and more common, and often it goes unnoticed.
VoIP is an industry acronym that stands for Voice over Internet protocol. To understand VoIP, you must understand IP or Internet protocol. Internet protocol is the standard procedure for regulating data transmission that the Internet uses to interconnect computers to the Internet. Normally, the IP's bulk of transmission would be just data only. Voice information is commonly transmitted via large networks of Public Switched Telephone Networks. The Internet too runs on like networks developed just for data. Eventually the Internet and the telephone network will be one and the same in the form of VoIP.
Many benefits outline Voice over IP. The intergration of voice and data will eventually lead to an evolution of web servers capable of interacting with voice, data and images. Another benefit is simplification. A city's internet networks and telephone networks can be now consolidated into a single multipurpose infrastructure of networks. This ultimately leads to the next benefit, which is cost reduction. Price cut occurs in that a city doesn't now have to maintain two complex networks. It only has to pay for and worry about one solid communication network which is capable of the other two costly networks. The Public Switched Telephone Networks' toll services can be bypassed using the Internet backbone, which means cutting in prices of the long distance calls.