17th April 2002 at 23:29
#21490
martin
Guest
it’s a moot point rather like the ‘softswitch’ term. I have always interpreted ‘IP telephony’ as being pure IP from handset to handset, as rommel says, whereas VoIP involves the use of gateway devices to convert digital/analog voice to IP packets.
However I agree that the terms have become interchangeable, maybe erroneously.