Q&A: What is VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol?
Question by helllo1234: What is VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol?
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Telephone voice just digitized & then broken apart, just like regular IP packets are when using the internet.
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VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) – it is a cheap cost telephone service that like traditional telephone service company, that provide you to make out going call and receive incoming call to/from mobile cellular phone or landline telephones around the world, but had a benefit of lower the costs compare to traditional phone call service. (ex. : SKYPE, Skyiptel…..)
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks. Other terms frequently encountered and synonymous with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, and broadband phone. That can be a benefit for reducing communication and infrastructure costs.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Internet telephony refers to communications services—voice, facsimile, and/or voice-messaging applications—that are transported via the Internet, rather than the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The basic steps involved in originating an Internet telephone call are conversion of the analog voice signal to digital format and compression/translation of the signal into Internet protocol (IP) packets for transmission over the Internet; the process is reversed at the receiving end.
It is a major development starting in 2004 has been the introduction of mass-market VoIP services over broadband Internet access services, in which subscribers make and receive calls as they would over the PSTN. Full phone service VoIP phone companies provide inbound and outbound calling with Direct Inbound Dialing. Many offer unlimited calling to the U.S., and some to Canada or selected countries in Europe or Asia as well, for a flat monthly fee as well as free calling between subscribers using the same provider. These services have a wide variety of features which can be more or less similar to traditional POTS.
Could you try open source Asterisk?
Here is more reading from VoIP related site. In short, voice gets converted into electrical signals carried over the Internet. Same as with traditional phone lines, except that instead of dedicated phone circuits, Internet is being used.
On top of this, VoIP service comes loaded with bunch of features, and goes that far, that you can take it with you (wherever you go), plus you can use your PC to talk, review your account, listen to your messages, save them, and much more.