VoIP The future of Telecommunications
If you've never heard of VoIP, get ready to change the way you think about long-distance phone calls. VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is a method for taking analog audio signals, like the kind you hear when you talk on the phone, and turning them into digital data that can be transmitted over the Internet.
How is this useful? VoIP can turn a standard Internet connection into a way to place free phone calls. The practical upshot of this is that by using some of the free VoIP software that is available to make Internet phone calls, you are bypassing the phone company (and its charges) entirely.
- Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or any other IP-based network
- Technology was first available in 1973
- Multi-Standards Available – SIP, H.323
- Any business with an IP network can take advantage of VoIP
- 5% of Small to Medium Business is currently utilising the technology now
- Analysts predict 80% utilisation By 2012
- British Telecom to be totally VoIP by 2009
- Telstra making moves into the market
- Data networks are the future of telecommunications
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