Introduction to VoIP…In 3 Minutes or Less

Whether you are home phone user, corporate manager, network administrator, a professional, Internet communicator, international caller or a simple mobile user, you won’t want to spend all your money on paying the phone bills, you just feel that what you pay is unfair. The best solution that you can find in order to save money on your phone bill – use your broadband connection, VoIP. This technology brings new possibilities.

The term VoIP is used nowadays more and more, it became very common in the coming years. Everybody talks about its benefits and wide range use. The development of VoIP represents a major change in the telecommunications.

What does the acronym VoIP stand for?

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a set of technologies which allows to communicate different people over the Internet, the voice is carried over the Internet; basically it is a way of converting the analogue signals when using a phone to a digital format and back into analogue at the receiver.

VoIP uses IP protocols designed for the Internet, and break the voice calls up into digital “packets”. This method of delivering phone service allows significant cost savings versus traditional telephone landline system.

Monthly long distance charges, payment for local, international calls can be completely eliminated if you use free software available for Personal Computers to transmit and receive VoIP calls. In order to call a normal phone for a small charge you can use any of free VoIP software.

In addition to traditional voice services VoIP provides an environment that allows voice to be integrated with other media types at the transport layer and at the service layer. VoIP is another way of making phone calls, with the difference of making calls cheaper or even completely free. All you need to start VoIP calls are good internet connection, computer with a microphone and speakers. It is also possible with your mobile and home phone.

Most of the companies use the VoIP within their own private networks; this allows a higher level of safety and quality to be maintained. Using their own networks, the business companies have opportunity to manage the voice quality, and usually it is even better than quality provided by the regular telephone system.