Today's Featured Article - VoIP
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Voice over Internet Protocol (also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, and Digital Phone) is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or any other IP-based network. The voice data flows over a general-purpose packet-switched network, instead of traditional dedicated, circuit-switched voice transmission lines.
Protocols used to carry voice signals over the IP network are commonly referred to as Voice over IP or VoIP protocols. They may be viewed as commercial realizations of the experimental Network Voice Protocol (1973) invented for the ARPANET.
Voice over IP traffic might be deployed on any IP network, including ones lacking a connection to the rest of the Internet, for instance on a private building-wide LAN.
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VOIP unless your father is like wee cho yaw I think it will be much cheaper just to install normal landline phones.
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Voip's main advantage is its cost savings over overseas calls. It would be quite impratical to use it for local calls.
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CONNECT YOUR M OBILE & HOME PHONE T O SKYPE
Continue to make and receive regular calls as you normally do
Make and Receive Skype™ calls using your standard telephone
Forward Skype™ calls to your mobile phone
Switch between a Skype™ call and a regular phone call
Easily select VoIP or PSTN for outgoing calls by simply clicking (*) on your phone's key pad
Allow your phone to conduct PC-to-PC/PC-to-Phone/Phone-to-Phone calls
Make/receive both VoIP calls and regular calls simultaneously
Dial direct from the keypad of your phone
Incoming phone call ringing on your handset instead of the PC's speaker
Can be used with any PC
Support wireless phone
1 USB interface to PC
Driver built-in
1 FXS for regular phone
No external power needed
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If you are using for your ownself sure SKYPE is fine. But the other party I think also needs to use SKYPE.
If you are planning to do for for your company of maybe 30-50 people I'm afraid to say that it's not as simple as you think the financial outlay is huge as high as few hundred k
And the worse thing is you cannot use your existing network, you have to build a new seperate network, try to use your existing network and you will kill it
VOIP can use up all your company network bandwidth since voice is translated into packets. You have to buy new network routers, new switches then IP phones and all these going to cost a lot a lot of money.
My company actually thought of doing it but after we saw the quote for 300k+ worth of equipment, software and 10% every year after that as maintainence I think my management nearly fainted, they have since change their mind already. Good lah I have less to do.
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For those who call overseas often using singapore HP, you may like to go to this website http://www.onlinedials.comOriginally posted by KumSioJui:If you are using for your ownself sure SKYPE is fine. But the other party I think also needs to use SKYPE.
where you can use your HP to call overseas landline, mobile and even PC at very reasonable rate.
Quality and rate is better than many current calling cards. -
Use VoIP for local calls is asking for trouble. Use for overseas calls will save much more.
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what sort of trouble ?Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Use VoIP for local calls is asking for trouble. Use for overseas calls will save much more.