Accounting Traffic in the Internet Today
[the full article can be seen at http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/BGP-for-regulators.pdf]
Business Model Changes
In the past, voice traffic was transported over a dedicated voice infrastructure, and the data network infrastructure was established in parallel so that voice and data traffic did not interfere with each other. Traditional voice accounting and performance functions are standardized within SS7 (Common Channel Signaling System No. 7), the global standard for telecommunications, defined by the ITU-T. The success of data networks led to the development of techniques to encapsulate voice traffic in IP packets, and thus Voice over IP (VoIP) was born. Read More »
