However, when we take a look closer, we see that whilst sharing the same goal, voice and data communications have evolved quite separately - giving way to different supporting standards, protocols and technologies, as well as commercially with different respective vendors and support infrastructures.
Convergence sees the coming together of voice and data technologies and services, sharing the same physical and technology communications medium (network). In doing so (often termed Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP), new and more powerful communications applications and services can be created.
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Traditional communications mainly falls to two sides - telephony and data. Both have common goals, to provide a means of transmission of communications from place to place or person to person.
