What is VoIP?
Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) meets the challenge of combining voice networks and packet networks by allowing both voice and signaling information to be transported over your data network. For large, medium and small businesses, the consolidation of separate voice, fax, and data resources offers an opportunity for significant savings. Accordingly, the challenge of integrating voice, fax, and data is becoming a rising priority for many network managers. Organizations are pursuing solutions that will enable them to take advantage of excess capacity on broadband networks for voice, fax, and data transmission, as well as utilize the Internet and company Intranets as alternatives to costlier mediums. This technology is now available.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology that allows you to make telephone calls using a broadband internet connection instead of a regular (or analog) phone line. VoIP converts the voice signal from your telephone into a digital signal that travels over the internet then converts it back at the other end so you can speak to anyone with a regular phone number.
VoIP stands for “Voice over IP” or “Voice over Internet Protocol.” It is a new way of making and receiving phone calls through your high speed Internet connection (broadband). VOIP offers consumers the benefit of calling – locally and long distance – for less money, with high quality and reliable connections and more features than many traditional phone service offerings.
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. If you have a LAN (Local Area Network) or WAN (Wide Area Network) linking your computers, you can also use that network for your telephone calls. This allows staff to communicate with the office wherever they have Internet access. Potentially, once Quality of Services has been achieved, calls can be made to anyone with an Internet connection.
