VOIP: The Seven Myths

Here is a link to a good background article on VOIP including the players, the stakes, the technology, and the future see an IEEE.org Feature Article: "VoIP means doing voice communications over the same networks that we rely on for data communications: the local networks that connect to our computers and the Internet that links them all together...low costs, and the efficiencies for carriers of maintaining a single, unified telecommunications network, guarantee that all telephony will eventually be done over IP. Essentially everyone in the telecommunications industry agrees on that. "