Voice over IP Service
Thursday, June 19th, 2008IP-telephony= phone service is known among people these days. IP-telephony is a service, which moves your words to the listener through the Internet. Voice is transferred between the senders and receivers through IP packets. Cpeacialized hardware are necessary for such phone service.
With IP-telephony, you can call and also receive calls. This happens through a broadband Internet connection. Using a Digital Terminal Adapter, you can use the IP-telephony phone service . You can connect several phones to your DTA box and use the phones at different locations. So, you can answer your calls from various places of your house.
How does it work?
IP-telephony works by digitalizing the voice. It digitalizes the voice and esports it in packets to the destinations where the digitalized voice is again reconverted to the general voice. The digital form of voice can be compressed if necessary, converted and routed to other formats. These digital signals are better because they can tolerate noise. IP-telephony sends the packets of digital data through networks using TCP/IP protocol.
Advantages
Transportability - You can use your IP-telephony= phone service at any place. The DTA gets a phone number, after which you can use the DTA with any broadband Internet connection. Just plug it and make and receive calls. You can use your DTA to call and receive calls around your country. In some cases the DTA works in other countries also.
Features - With IP-telephony, you get several other properties along with. The functionalities that you get are voice mail, 3-way calling, Caller ID, Call Forwarding, Call Waiting, and On-Line Account Management.
There is no cost to these functionalities. You can simply get these features by changing a software.
Reliability and Quality - IP-telephony is reliable and quality is generally good. But, sometimes you may face problems like need to reboot the DTA, delay, voice quality problems etc, which can be corrected simply by tuning the network.
In case of IP-telephony= phone service, you do not have to pay for the time you use. But in case of PSTN and other call services, you need to pay for the time you use the service. Again, you can talk to many person at a time. You can transfer images, videos, texts with the people you talk with.
Both individual and businesses can use IP-telephony= phone services. This will save a lot of money and time. But for that you should have the right VoIP phone service fitted at the users place.
Jim Francisto
IP-telephony