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'''Convergence of communications''', in varying and unfortunately not yet standard phrasings, is the goal of having all types of human-to-computer and computer-to-computer communications '''converge onto''' (i.e., all run over) a common infrastructure using Internet Protocol version 4 or Internet Protocol version 6. | |||
*{{r|Data||}} | It is neither necessary, nor desirable from a security standpoint, that they all run over the public Internet. All of these services can be restricted to other than the Internet, such as intranets or extranets. | ||
This definition of convergence does not attempt to standardize the applications themselves. Instead, it includes the technologies that enable application-specific communications to be transmitted over standard interfaces to information delivery systems using Internet Protocol, Session Initiation Protocol, and similar protocols and interfaces.<ref name=AboutVoIP>{{citation | |||
| title = VoIP and Communications Convergence: What is Communications Convergence? | |||
| first = Nadeem | last = Unuth | |||
| journal = About.com | |||
| url = http://voip.about.com/od/notonlyvoice/a/CommConverge.htm | |||
}}</ref> | |||
Converged services may use custom software (e.g., private branch exchange) on a purpose-built router, or a general-purpose computer. | |||
*{{r|Data (general)|Data|}} | |||
**{{r|Domain Name System||}} | **{{r|Domain Name System||}} | ||
**{{r|Search engine||}} | **{{r|Search engine||}} | ||
**{{r|Email||}} | **{{r|Email||}} | ||
**{{r|File transfer||}} | **{{r|File transfer||}} | ||
**{{r|Peer to peer file sharing||}} | |||
**{{r|Content delivery and distributed file sharing networks||}} | |||
**{{r|Transaction processing||}} | **{{r|Transaction processing||}} | ||
**{{r|World Wide Web||}} | **{{r|World Wide Web||}} | ||
**{{r| | **{{r|Online Document Services||}} | ||
**{{r|Text messaging||}} | **{{r|Text messaging||}} | ||
**{{r|Collaborative public markup||}} (e.g., a Wiki) | |||
**{{r|Online book libraries||}} (e.g., Questia, Muse, O'Reilly, etc.) | |||
*{{r|Digital Rights Management||}} essential to some of the new services | |||
*{{r|Universal emergency telephone number system||}}<ref name=NENA>{{citation | *{{r|Universal emergency telephone number system||}}<ref name=NENA>{{citation | ||
| url = http://www.nena.org/ | | url = http://www.nena.org/ | ||
| title = National Emergency Number Association}}</ref> | | title = National Emergency Number Association}}</ref> | ||
*{{r|Telemedicine||}} | *{{r|Telemedicine||}} | ||
*{{r|Multimedia||}} | *{{r|Multimedia||}} | ||
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**{{r|Broadcast radio||}} | **{{r|Broadcast radio||}} | ||
**{{r|Pay-per-view audio content||}} | **{{r|Pay-per-view audio content||}} | ||
**{{r| | **{{r|Telephone||}} using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) | ||
*{{r|Television||}} | *{{r|Television||}} | ||
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*{{r|Facsimile||}} | *{{r|Facsimile||}} | ||
*{{r|Software update distribution||}} | |||
*{{r|Telemetry||}} | *{{r|Telemetry||}} | ||
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 This article is about Convergence of communications. For other uses of the term Convergence , please see Convergence (disambiguation).
Convergence of communications, in varying and unfortunately not yet standard phrasings, is the goal of having all types of human-to-computer and computer-to-computer communications converge onto (i.e., all run over) a common infrastructure using Internet Protocol version 4 or Internet Protocol version 6. It is neither necessary, nor desirable from a security standpoint, that they all run over the public Internet. All of these services can be restricted to other than the Internet, such as intranets or extranets. This definition of convergence does not attempt to standardize the applications themselves. Instead, it includes the technologies that enable application-specific communications to be transmitted over standard interfaces to information delivery systems using Internet Protocol, Session Initiation Protocol, and similar protocols and interfaces.[1] Converged services may use custom software (e.g., private branch exchange) on a purpose-built router, or a general-purpose computer.
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