"You don't necessarily have to invest in new infrastructure," Daley says. "A lot of wireless vendors support voice, but you might need to add some new access points. You have to be much more serious about design and deployment and use tools to plan for high capacity usage instead of just data usage."
The bottom line is that, although its is carried as packets along an IP network, VoIP is not just data. That means that organizations eager to surf the coming VoWLAN wave have to consider carefully how they will move to the new technology and, perhaps more importantly, how dependent they will be on it.
"It's not rocket science," Daley says. "But there is a big difference between what works in the lab and works in the real world. We still have to see how well it will work out."
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
