My VoIP service provider (such as Vonage or AT&T) gave me an ATA (Analog Telephony Adapter), or VoIP router, that allows me to connect my old-fashioned telephone to my broadband connection. Will Zfone work with that?
Well, not with that exact setup, no. Your ATA or VoIP router is a hardware device that lets you connect your old analog telephone to a VoIP network. To make a secure call with that kind of setup, you would have to have an ATA with the ZRTP protocol integrated inside, which will happen someday, we hope. In the meantime, if you really want to run Zfone now, you need to run a software VoIP client (such as X-Lite, Apple iChat, SJphone, OpenWengo, –> or perhaps a software VoIP client supplied by your VoIP service provider) on your PC or Macintosh computer. You can use the software VoIP client to connect to your VoIP service provider from your computer, not from a normal telephone. Then you can install Zfone on the same computer, and have it convert your VoIP call to the ZRTP protocol. And, of course, the other party you are calling must also be running VoIP with the ZRTP protocol (such as Zfone) on the other end. This will become simpler when ATA or VoIP router vendors integrate the ZRTP p
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