VoIP : A New Era?
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Following the arrival
of VoIP, or Voice Over Internet Protocol, the internet techies have
been raving about it, and it is now one of the hottest new technologies
around, but what is it and why is it talked about so much?
Well
let’s begin with what VoIP is. In short, it allows you to make phone
calls over the internet using your broadband connection, but has many
benefits:
- You can make phone calls from virtually anywhere in the world to anywhere else using your computer.
- Depending on the speed of your connection, you are able to make several calls at the same time.
-
If you move home, you are able to keep your same number, even if you
move from one side of the world to the other. As you do not have an
actual land line, but a converter that has a number assigned, as long
as keep the converter with you, you can plug it into any broadband
connection and immediately utilize your usual number for making and
receiving calls.
Another
benefit of VoIP, which many will find useful, and be an attractive
feature for many businesses, is the ability to connect to your office
phone, whether it be from a hotel or from home. This will enable
company personnel to work out of the office, but still have access to
all of the office phone system features.
VoIP
can also be very cost effective, especially when making long-distance
calls. This factor has meant that telephone service providers have to
compete with VoIP, in turn ensuring pricing is much more competitive.
At
the beginning, the voice quality for those using VoIP was not as good
as with a traditional phone line. However the continual technological
advancements have meant that the difference in quality is now not as
apparent.
So how does it work?
To
begin with your voice is converted into bytes so that it can be
compressed, split it into packets, and transmitted over the internet.
These packets, which contain a collection of information, including the
origin, timestamp, and intended destination of the packet, is then
converted at the receivers end so that your voice is recognised.
There are many that are already abandoning existing telephone networks and solely using VoIP.
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