CoIP (communications over Internet Protocol)
CoIP (communications over Internet Protocol) is a set of standards defining the transmission of
multimedia
over the Internet. CoIP
can be considered an expansion of VoIP (voice over
Internet Protocol) to include text, images, video and other forms of digital data as
well as voice information.
CoIP, which uses the same overall set of parameters as VoIP, is an aspect of widespread and
ongoing efforts in the IT industry to
attain convergence of
all forms of communications and broadcasting in a single medium.
The abbreviation CoIP is sometimes used to stand for conferencing over Internet Protocol (H.323). H.323
defines a set of standards designed to provide consistency in audio, video and data packet
transmissions in the event that a local area network (LAN) can not provide guaranteed service
quality (QoS).
This was last updated in March 2008
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