How long as VoIP been around ?

[hazephase]

It has been around since 1973 when it was experimented by the US Department of Defence , did not know that did you ?
I became popular only later on cause it need a good broadband connection .

[syphus]

well...

VoIP evolved from NVP, which was funded by ARPA but developed Information Sciences Institute of University of Southern California. NVP was designed to scale all the way down to conventional telephone networks, meaning it had to work at what we now call dial-up speed. If you think about it, this makes perfect sense: if you can use the conventional telephone network (which must be limited to a maximum speed of 56kb), then why can't you packetize the data and do the same?

VoIP "needs" broadband because it's a marketing point. Mainly it's because it's grown to be extremely inefficient and because the internet is poorly designed and overloaded, and now subject to turbulent weather (you know, those days where everything is slow, high packet loss, service loss).

Like most IT-problems, too much available resource has made people lazy when it comes to protocol specifications and programming.

[attagirl]

You are right, so you really have answered your own question. The capability had been around for years through NVP (1973). VoIP is the realization of NVP which was indeed invented for the ARPANET providers, which was not only used by the Department of Defense for military bases usage but for Universities to connect with each such as Langley.

[ricecook]

I think this type of system used by the defense services for the purpose of internet is because of the security circle provided with this service.

[blasted]

VOIP has actually been around as long as the internet has been around.This is a long time ago.The internet started in 1969 by the US department of defence as a communication method.This is how it all begun.