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Apple has not taken a stand on VOIP. Sure, they let Skype run on their desktop platform, but a long term strategy hasn’t been announced. What will they do about this must-have technology?

A few possible scenarios exist:

• Apple could be building its own VOIP network and planning to integrate it into iChat both on the desktop and on the iPhone. Hopefully, they use the open SIP platform that allows it to communicate with many of the other phone systems in the world. Perhaps it partners with Cisco on this - part of the “iPhone” naming deal.
• Apple could be partnering with Google and using its GoogleTalk/Jabber platform (which already is integrated into iChat) and plan integration across its line of products. Google is likely looking to expand its Google Talk service so users can receive incoming calls. This, in turn, could be connected with other Google account services like email, calendar, contact list, etc.
• Same thing as Google above but instead with Yahoo!.
• Apple opens up iPod/iPhone to third-party applications in February. Vonage, Skype, Fring. SIP, etc. jump on board.
• Apple buys Skype from Ebay and turns it into a defacto communications platform. While it has the legacy phone number/SMS system, it also includes chatting and claims over 100 million users today. Skype is undervalued and not being utilized properly by Ebay. Apple has $15 billion in the bank. Oh and *cough* 700Mhz Spectrum is also for sale. *cough*
• Apple does nothing. Waits for traditional phones and phone numbers to die and instant messaging to take over in a few years. In the meantime, it takes a few dollars out of your mobile bill and puts that $15 billion and change in pork bellies and frozen concentrated orange juice.

The online buzz about Apple’s supposed iPhone does not seem to end.  Now experts have jumped into the pool as well. UK consultancy Visiongain says that Apple’s rumoured “iPhone” will feature VoIP capability.  The fact that Apple’s networking partner is Helio, a mobile virtual network operator in the United States, adds fuel to this wild fire.

If it were true, existing VoIP and Telecom operators should worry. Combine the cult market of Apple with the the low cost lure of VoIP, and what do you get? The idea of iPod users using VoiP does not need seem farfetched as well.

SIP-VoIP for the iPod touch is free, but they’re accepting donations. Jailbreakers will enjoy the software, which I assume will be a relatively easy installation. Hopefully Apple doesn’t “brick” the iPod touch’s of the jailbreakers. Not only won’t you be able to play music, but you won’t be able to get your VoIP on either. And that my friends would suck twice as badly.

The website even has a cool countdown to the launch that looks very similar to the TV show 24’s countdown clock.

One of the most important things to point out is that VoIP is not limited to voice communication. In fact, a number of efforts have been made to change this popular marketing term to better reflect the fact that VoIP means voice, video, and data conferencing. All such attempts have failed up to this point, but do understand that video telephony and real-time text communication (ToIP), for example, is definitely within the scope of the VoIP.

VoIP is important because, for the first time in more than 100 years, there is an opportunity to bring about significant change in the way that people communicate. In addition to being able to use the telephones we have today to communicate in real-time, we also have the possibility of using pure IP-based phones, including desktop and wireless phones. We also have the ability to use videophones, much like those seen in science fiction movies. Rather than calling home to talk to the family, a person can call home to see the family.

One of the more interesting aspects of VoIP is that we also have the ability to integrate a stand-alone telephone or videophone with the personal computer. One can use a computer entirely for voice and video communications (softphones), use a telephone for voice and the computer for video, or can simply use the computer in conjunction with a separate voice/video phone to provide data conferencing functions, like application sharing, electronic whiteboarding, and text chat.

VoIP allows something else: the ability to use a single high-speed Internet connection for all voice, video, and data communications. This idea is commonly referred to as convergence and is one of the primary drivers for corporate interest in the technology. The benefit of convergence should be fairly obvious: by using a single data network for all communications, it is possible to reduce the overall maintenance and deployment costs. The benefit for both home and corporate customers is that they now have the opportunity to choose from a much larger selection of service providers to provide voice and video communication services. Since the VoIP service provider can be located virtually anywhere in the world, a person with Internet access is no longer geographically restricted in their selection of service providers and is certainly not bound to their Internet access provider.

In short, VoIP enables people to communicate in more ways and with more choices.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a protocol optimized for the transmission of voice through the Internet or other packet switched networks. VoIP is often used abstractly to refer to the actual transmission of voice (rather than the protocol implementing it). VoIP is also known as IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband.

Companies providing VoIP service are commonly referred to as providers, and protocols which are used to carry voice signals over the IP network are commonly referred to as Voice over IP or VoIP protocols. They may be viewed as commercial realizations of the experimental Network Voice Protocol (1973) invented for the ARPANET providers. Some cost savings are due to utilizing a single network to carry voice and data, especially where users have existing underutilized network capacity that can carry VoIP at no additional cost. VoIP to VoIP phone calls are sometimes free, while VoIP to public switched telephone networks, PSTN, may have a cost that is borne by the VoIP user.

Voice over IP protocols carry telephony signals as digital audio, typically reduced in data rate using speech data compression techniques, encapsulated in a data packet stream over IP.

There are two types of PSTN to VoIP services: Direct Inward Dialing (DID) and access numbers. DID will connect the caller directly to the VoIP user while access numbers require the caller to input the extension number of the VoIP user.