Analysts suffering from video latency Add another to the long list of free video-chat clients. With its new software, due to officially launch on June 11, startup ooVoo is entering a market that already includes AOL, Apple, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Skype, and a handful of smaller names. The difference? The ooVoo client focuses on multi-person video calls, allowing for face-to-face chat across six different locations.…

Network Traffic

VoIP traffic has a number of issues that must be carefully considered, such as traffic parameters and network design. Without such due diligence, you could be faced with service that does not function reliably or is severely degraded.

These important considerations are as follows.

• Latency
  
  
• Bandwidth
  
  
• Jitter