How does VoIP work?
VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is a technology that takes the analog audio signals produced by your telephone, and changes them into digital data that can be transmitted over the Internet. By sending your phone calls digitally over the Internet, VoIP bypasses the traditional phone company and erases the distinctions between local and long distance, also called “latas,” making all calls “equal” and enabling VoIP phone service suppliers to provide both local and long distance phone service at a flat price. Like emails and other data that is sent over the Internet, your VoIP digital audio signals are “packetized” before they travel across Internet lines. The efficiency of this process contributes to VoIP’s lower price. It means that — unlike the phone system that uses a single wire for each call — your voice data packets can intermingle with other Internet data packets, while taking the most efficient and fastest route to their destination.
Early on it was determined that it was possible to send a voice signal to a remote destination digitally, as well as via analog. To do that, we have to digitize it with an ADC (analog to digital converter), transmit it, and at the end transform it again in analog format with DAC (digital to analog converter) to use it. This is basically the way VoIP works, sending voice information in digital form in discrete packets rather than in the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A major advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service.
When you sign up for our service, you must purchase an internet VoIP phone or a conversion box. These devices plug into an internet router or a broadband internet modem. They then convert your voice into data and transmits that data to our network. We take that data and send it to the proper location to complete your call. At that location, we convert your voice data back to an audio signal, and complete your call.
