Comparison of Common PLC Methods Used in VoIP Networks

VoIP is very emerging technology in last years and telecommunication operators seek to profit from it. The main advantage of this technology is usage of existing infrastructure in the form of wide coverage of Internet connection. Unfortunately, this advantage brings some weak points that are expectable because of the quality of Internet connection. The quality of a signal on a receiving side is affected by many disturbances that have to be suppressed. This paper deals with some methods which are used for suppressing of consequences of these effects. There were compared several methods implemented only on the receiving side of telecommunication chain. The efficiency of these methods was assessed by both subjective and objective tests.