ABSTRACT

The incredible growth of WLANs and the overwhelming

acceptance of VoIP have merged to form the foundation for

Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN), sometimes

referred to as Voice over Wireless Fidelity (VoWiFi).

The use of VoIP, the wired Internet Protocol predecessor

to VoWiFi, freed us from our land-based telephones. VoIP

technology provided us with a cost-effective alternative to

circuit-switched voice networks, otherwise known as the

public switched telephone network (PSTN). Designing an

overall integration strategy built around voice and data

exchange via the Internet led to an increased use of remote

connectivity both at work and at home.