What is Telephony?
Telephony is something that impacts the lives of just about everyone on a daily basis. Here are some basics about telephony, as well as some history about the development of voice communications. In its simplest form, telephony is simply a collective term for all types of voice equipment that are designed to allow interactive communication between two points. The most commonly identified piece of telephony equipment is the telephone itself. Considered to be an essential in just about every residence and in all businesses, the telephone provides basic point to point audio communication that many of us have come to rely on extensively during the course of the day. Along with telephones, telephone switching systems or telephone exchanges allow for the processing of all our telephone calls. The basic framework for a telephone calls involves a point of origin, which initiates a signal to a switch that the subscriber wishes to place a call. The switch accepts the inbound signal and delivers
