Question

how media convergence can be synergistic with scalability of the number of user's in a VoIP communications environment.

Answer 1

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one of the most popular standards for voice and video calling over the web. But not all real-time communications services implement VoIP in the same way.

Number of users in VoIP is incresing day by day. More than 150 million people are active users of VoIP.

The media convergence can be effectively incorporated with latest technologies over VoIP as the number of users increasing.

There are three different kinds of VoIP. VoIP telephone handsets that look and work much like traditional telephones, except that instead of being wired to a telephone line, they're either directly connected to your computer (by something like a USB cable) or indirectly connected to it by a wireless (Wi-Fi) router. You'll find a slightly different kind of VoIP on cellphones (mobile phones). You make and receive mobile VoIP calls much the same as normal cellphone calls but, instead of calls being sent and received on a permanently open line, like a traditional cellphone call, they're broken into packets and sent back and forth—rather like a web page that you're browsing with something like a smart phone. In other words, they're using packet switching over the cellphone network. A third kind of VoIP is entirely computer based; Skype is the best-known example. When you use Skype to call someone, it sets up a more or less direct connection (known as a peer-to-peer or P2P) connection with someone else's computer, across the Internet. You send and receive text messages, voice data, or webcam chat over this direct link. Apart from the initial logging on process, there is no intermediate computer managing the communication between the sender and receiver, which makes Skype relatively secure compared to other forms of telephone .

in order to accomate larger traffic new features are adding over VoIP. In 20111 Google launched WebRTC to the pubic. WebRTC presents an interesting challenge, in that it acts as a rival to VoIP but also a potential partner, with both technologies able to work together and add voice to applications.

With these newly technologies and protocols the media convergence with increse in traffic is effectively possible and is happening day by day.