Technology Feature

Voice over IP: Security issues to the fore

With the growing acceptance of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in India, enterprises have changed their way of communicating within and outside the organisation. Enterprises in India, as well as those in the rest of the world, have successfully used this technology and derived cost savings and other benefits from it. VoIP has now been adopted universally as a reliable technology alternative by which voice is transmitted over a data network. While the acceptance level of VoIP has gone up, threats are looming large with voice spam being a significant blight on the horizon. Questions remain as to how a flood of voice spam will affect the market for VoIP and how vendors selling VoIP equipment are going to tackle this challenge. By Faiz Askari

It’s boom time for VoIP in India. Nagendra Venkaswamy, Managing Director (India & SAARC), Juniper Networks says, “India has the potential to be the world’s largest market after China, due to rising broadband penetration, a huge market and the importance placed on cost savings.”
Nagendra Venkaswamy

Agreeing to the fact that VoIP is growing rapidly in India, Jayesh Kotak, Vice-president, Marketing, D-Link India highlighted another aspect of the technology, “There is no doubt that VoIP is a growing segment. However, SMBs have not been able to benefit much from this technology. The government has allowed logical partitioning, but the benefits will only be widely enjoyed when VoIP is fully deregulated.”

Minhaj Zia, Business Development Manager, Cisco Systems India & SAARC explains, “The market for VoIP services in Asia, including Japan, will grow by $one billion per year between 2005 and 2009, topping $10 billion in 2009.”

The proliferation of VoIP services across Asia-Pacific will rise as telecommunications markets open up. According to the latest report by Frost & Sullivan, this move coupled with the increasing differential between PSTN (public switched telephone network) and VoIP tariffs will ignite VoIP services to revenue growth rates exceeding 320 percent y-o-y.

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