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History of VoIP

1974 - The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) published a paper entitled "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection."^[1]
1981 - IPv4 is described in RFC-791^[2]
1985 – The National Science Foundation commissions the creation of NSFNET^[3]
1995 – VocalTec releases the first commercial Internet phone software^[4]^[5].
1996 -
- ITU-T begins the standardization of VoIP initially with the H.323 standard^[6]
- US telecommunication companies ask the US Congress to ban Internet phone technology^[7].
1997 - Level 3 began development of its first softswitch (a term they coined in 1998)^[8]
1999 -
- The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) specification RFC-2543 was released^[9]
- The first open source SIP PBX (Asterisk) is created by Mark Spencer of Digium^[10]
2004 - Commercial VoIP service providers proliferate^[11]

References

^ Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 22, No. 5, May 1974 pp. 637-648
^ "RFC791". University of Southern California. September 1, 1981. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ "The Launch of NSFNET". The National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ Keating, Tom. "Internet Phone Release 4" (PDF). Computer Telephony Interaction Magazine. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
^ "The 10 that Established VoIP (Part 1: VocalTec)". iLocus. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ "H.323 Visual telephone systems and equipment for local area networks which provide a non-guaranteed quality of service". ITU-T. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ "RFC-2235". R. Zakon. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ "The 10 that Established VoIP (Part 2: Level 3)". iLocus. July 13, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
^ "RFC-2543, SIP: Session Initiation Protocol". Handley,Schulzrinne,Schooler,Rosenberg. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ "What is Asterisk". Asterisk.org. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ "VoIP on the Verge". Telecommuncations Online. November 1, 2004. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[1] Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 22, No. 5, May 1974 pp. 637-648

[2] "RFC791". University of Southern California. September 1, 1981. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[3] "The Launch of NSFNET". The National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[4] Keating, Tom. "Internet Phone Release 4" (PDF). Computer Telephony Interaction Magazine. Retrieved 2007-11-07.

[5] "The 10 that Established VoIP (Part 1: VocalTec)". iLocus. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[6] "H.323 Visual telephone systems and equipment for local area networks which provide a non-guaranteed quality of service". ITU-T. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[7] "RFC-2235". R. Zakon. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[ilocus_softswitch-8] "The 10 that Established VoIP (Part 2: Level 3)". iLocus. July 13, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-07.

[9] "RFC-2543, SIP: Session Initiation Protocol". Handley,Schulzrinne,Schooler,Rosenberg. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[10] "What is Asterisk". Asterisk.org. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[11] "VoIP on the Verge". Telecommuncations Online. November 1, 2004. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

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