Just What is Voice Over IP Telephony?

Voice over Internet Telephony is technology that means you can hold telephone calls over Internet or an IP network. It eliminates need for having separate lines for your Internet connection and dedicated voice transfer lines. There are many advantages to VoIP but because it is still an advancing technology you need to shop around to find best deal. No cumbersome circuit switching is required and there is no depletion in bandwidth associated with normal dual line systems. VoIP protocol means that voice data is only sent over network when it needs to be, freeing up that bandwidth when you aren’t making ‘calls’.

What are Advantages of VoIP.

Voice over Internet Telephony isn’t widely used in office networks, let alone in home, however if you make international phone calls then you are probably being routed through IP infrastructure because of lower costs of calls. What this does mean, though, is that infrastructure is quite obviously already in place and anyone who chooses can do so easily. This means that you can ‘call’ friends, family or associates using your own VoIP without need for them to have same technology installed.

The costs are phone calls that are reduced dramatically by using VoIP and once infrastructure is in place there are usually little or no additional infrastructure charges required making it a cost effective and affordable telephony solution.

Because VoIP is a new technology you get usual advantages of employing a new technology; increased technological advances and new technologies are employed meaning you get a state of art system. Telecommunications providers have been regularly using IP networks to transfer voice data and so most of teething problems have been thoroughly investigated and ironed out and all advancements made have been integrated into a system you can have installed in your home, office or business.

You don’t necessarily have to transmit your calls over Internet, and for more secure calls you can use private IP networks. For this reason many large businesses already have IP systems in place making inter-business calls much cheaper.

The process is not complicated at all because majority of sites from where you can send free ecards will explain very well what you are supposed to do. There are some system requirements for most sites to function well on your computer. Usually it's necessary at least Windows 95 or windows 98. If you don't know what system you are using you can always verify it by pressing start button on you left bottom corner your screen. The version of windows should be displayed on left side of pop up menu.