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Understanding Voice Over Internet Protocol (voip).

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Internet Voice, also known as 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. Some services using VoIP may only allow you to call other people using the same service, but others may allow you to call anyone who has a telephone number – including local, long distance, mobile, and international numbers. Also, while some services only work over your computer or a special VoIP phone, other services allow you to use a traditional phone through an adaptor.

The calls are made over a data network like the internet. VoIP converts the voice to a digital signal that can travel over the internet then converts it back to voice once it reaches the other end. This enables you to speak to anyone with a regular phone number. When placing a VoIP call using a phone with an adapter, you’ll hear a dial tone and dial just as you always have. VoIP may also allow you to make a call directly from a computer using a conventional telephone or a microphone.

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Why You Should Be Placing Long Distance Phone Calls Using VoIP

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Placing telephone calls over the internet instead of using a telephone company is quickly becoming a favorite with many consumers. This kind of technology is called VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol. It’s a method of turning audio into digital format, and sending it across the internet to either another computer or telephone, and it’s rapidly changing the way that people make telephone calls.

Actually, this kind of voice technology is not anything really new, as there were programs available more than 10 years ago that you can download to your computer for free and then place long-distance phone calls. The major drawback was that most of the Internet users of that time were using dial-up connections, and so the telephone calls they made often suffered from major quality problems.

Today, quite a few Internet users are using broadband internet services instead which allow for high-speed internet access. This makes VoIP technology much more effective and useful, and so voice quality has improved dramatically, even to the point where it rivals that of land line telephones.

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VoIP Telephone Solution

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Have you ever wondered how it would be wonderful to use your internet connection for your phone calls, saving you tons of money for your long distance communications?

Actually, this technology exists!

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VoIP Telephone Solution

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Have you ever wondered how it would be wonderful to use your internet connection for your phone calls, saving you tons of money for your long distance communications?

Actually, this technology exists!

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Voip – The Basics

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

This story is one of those too-good-to-be-true tales that actually might be real. The acronym VoIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol; that’s the technology for making telephone calls over the web. Several companies have introduced services that utilize this technological capacity and they are making a commercial success of it. That’s why major cable operators are now “bundling” cable service, high speed Internet access and telephone service in a package. They can provide all three products over the single coaxial cable wire that comes through your wall at home.

Telephone service over cable blows right past the “level playing field” that antitrust decisions have sought to achieve in order to provide competition for phone service on a local level. The telephone companies’ switching systems and all those copper cables on all those poles have been totally subverted by another Internet service. In the words of Peter Sisson, a former Bell Labs researcher, “Telephone service used to be based on a huge infrastructure of high-priced equipment…and now it’s just software.”

VoIP is technology that accesses underutilized bandwidth to move voice communications over cable systems. “Packet Switching” technology moves audio signals along the same coaxial and fiber cables that carry Internet traffic and cable TV programming. The technology has been developed to compress video signals and to more efficiently move data bits for email, web browsing and audio conversations along shared bandwidths by isolating the information into “packets” and sending them downstream like boxes on a conveyor belt.

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Voip – The Basics

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

This story is one of those too-good-to-be-true tales that actually might be real. The acronym VoIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol; that’s the technology for making telephone calls over the web. Several companies have introduced services that utilize this technological capacity and they are making a commercial success of it. That’s why major cable operators are now “bundling” cable service, high speed Internet access and telephone service in a package. They can provide all three products over the single coaxial cable wire that comes through your wall at home.

Telephone service over cable blows right past the “level playing field” that antitrust decisions have sought to achieve in order to provide competition for phone service on a local level. The telephone companies’ switching systems and all those copper cables on all those poles have been totally subverted by another Internet service. In the words of Peter Sisson, a former Bell Labs researcher, “Telephone service used to be based on a huge infrastructure of high-priced equipment…and now it’s just software.”

VoIP is technology that accesses underutilized bandwidth to move voice communications over cable systems. “Packet Switching” technology moves audio signals along the same coaxial and fiber cables that carry Internet traffic and cable TV programming. The technology has been developed to compress video signals and to more efficiently move data bits for email, web browsing and audio conversations along shared bandwidths by isolating the information into “packets” and sending them downstream like boxes on a conveyor belt.

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The Evolution of VoIP

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Technology changes gradually, passing from one stage of advancement to another. It’s a continuous process, or an evolution.

When VoIP was launched in the market, there was no quality though the architecture of the systems was similar to that of a PBX system. The only high points of the service were the low cost of making and managing phone calls as well as the provision of billing via software. The other advantage was getting a united network. Instead of running two networks at each point (one for network operations and other for telephony), they could be consolidated into one. This process is particularly crucial for satellite offices or remote sites. Netscape was one of the first-gen providers.

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The Cost Benefits Of VOIP: The Sensible Choice?

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

With the ever-tightening credit crunch it is imperative that businesses evaluate all possible ways in which costs can be cut so as to preserve profitability in these troubled economic times. In this article we evaluate the cost saving ability of VOIP, or voice over internet protocol, and the effect it could have on your business.


Given that VOIP is a relatively new phenomenon and one which is yet to take off as widely as is predicted, it is perhaps sensible to start with a brief introduction to the technology. VOIP is actually a protocol designed specifically for the optimised transfer of voice through the Internet. However, the abbreviation is most often used to refer to the practice of using the Internet to make telephone calls rather than to identify the protocol that facilitates the making of calls. At its heart, VOIP is designed to deliver a cost saving to the consumer by using bandwidth already available but otherwise left unutilised. With more and more domestic consumers either switching to or implementing VOIP alongside traditional copper-wire telephony, large corporations are now waking up to the its potential.


So what are the benefits of VOIP? In a small business setting or home office scenario, the primary benefit is the ability to add an extra telephone line at little or no cost. This is especially true as broadband connectivity becomes ever more widespread. A further benefit is that VOIP providers do not generally charge extra for functionality (such as caller ID and automatic redial), which is often costly on traditional telephony networks. The actual cost of calls is also significantly cheaper, with many domestic calls being made for free! A further benefit, especially in large organisations where employees may be geographically dispersed is that VOIP allows for free conference and video calling.

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Defining VoIP

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

When I opened Todd Cardin Answering Service twenty years ago there were not a lot of options in phone service. Today there are so many options and choices in telephony that it is mind boggling. It is confusing living with so many choices. Even those of us in the telecommunications industry find it impossible to keep up with everything. This is especially true for voice over IP.


Many people hear the term Voice over IP or broadband telephone service and still are not sure what that means. VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. Using VoIP, voice information is converted into digital packets and sent over the Internet, and then converted back into analog signals before reaching the phone receiver at the other end. This is a growing and new technology which will surely expand as the number of broadband connections increase.

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What is VoIP and Its Advantages?

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

So you are looking for VoIP service, but do you really know what that is? Do you really know what you are looking for? VoIP, also known as Voice over IP or Voice over Internet Protocol is not nearly as techie as it sounds, and as you understand it more, you can save a bundle on your telephone bill.

Let me explain VoIP service in layman’s terms. With VoIP service, you are making and receiving telephone calls using the Internet. That is really as simple as it is. You do not have to be connected to the telephone company in order to make or receive a telephone call, as long as you have VoIP services and a high-speed Internet connection. Yes, you can still make calls to people who have traditional phones, and you can still receive calls from people who are using regular phones. If you call someone else, they could be a cell phone user, a traditional phone user, or another VoIP user, even from a different VoIP provider than the one you are using.

So at this point you might be saying, so what? You want to know what this all means to you right? Let’s look at it. To surf the Internet from home, you probably already have a high-speed Internet connection, or if you do not, you are probably going to get one very soon, since more and more people are becoming “net connected” every day. And you have that today, even without a VoIP service connection, right? So you have the majority of the requirements done already.

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