Advantages for Choosing Voice over IP

With Voice over IPas Telnovo’s line of business, let us discuss the advantages of Voice over IP. Voice over

IP (VoIP) was developed in order to provide access to voice communication in any place around the world. In most places, you know voice communication is quite costly. Consider making a phone call to a person living in a country half the globe away. The first thing you might think of in this case is your phone bill, right? VoIP solves this problem and many others.

There are of course a few drawbacks attached to the use of VoIP, as is the case with any new technology, but the advantages largely outbalance these. Let's explore below the benefits of VoIP and see how it can improve your home or business voice communication.

It saves a lot of money

If you don’t use VoIP for voice communication, then you are most certainly using the good old phone line (PSTN – Packet-Switched Telephone Network). On a PSTN line, time is really money. You actually pay for each minute you spend communicating on the phone. International calls are much more expensive. Since VoIP uses the Internet as backbone, the only cost you have when using it is the monthly Internet bill to your ISP. Of course you need broadband Internet access, like ADSL, with a decent speed. In fact, unlimited 24/7 ADSL Internet service is what most people use today, and this causes your monthly cost to be of a fixed amount. You can speak as much as you wish on VoIP and the connection cost will still be the same.

It is being used by more than two persons

On the phone line, only two persons can speak at a time. But with VoIP, you can setup a conference with a whole team communicating in real time, even if all of you are in different places around the world. And in addition to this, more calls can be handled on one access line.

It has cheap user hardware and software

If you are an Internet user wishing to use VoIP for voice communication, the only additional hardware you require besides your computer and Internet connection are a sound card, speakers and a microphone. These stuff are quite cheap. There exist several software packages downloadable from the Internet, which you can install and use for the purpose. Examples of such applications are the well-known Skype and Kakao Talk. You do not actually need a telephone set, which can be quite expensive, along with the underlying equipment, especially when you have a phone network.

It has abundant, Interesting and Useful Features

Using VoIP also means benefitting from its abundant features which can make your VoIP experience very rich and sophisticated, both for personal and for your business. You are thus better equipped for call management through VoIP.

It contains more than voice

VoIP is based on the Internet Protocol (IP), which is in fact, along with TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), the basic underlying protocol for the Internet. By virtue of this, VoIP also handles media types other than voice: you can transfer images, video and text along with the voice. For example, you can speak to someone while sending her files or even showing yourself by just using a web cam.

It is more efficient use of bandwidth

It was shown in some studies that about 50% of a voice conversation is in silence. VoIP fills the ‘empty’ silence spaces with data so that bandwidth in data communication channels is not wasted. In other words, a user is not given bandwidth when he is not talking, and this bandwidth is used efficiently for other bandwidth consumers. Moreover, the ability to remove redundancy in some speech patterns add up to the efficiency of calls.

It has flexible network layout

The underlying network for VoIP does not need to be of a particular layout or topology. This makes it possible for an organization to make use of the power of proven technologies. VoIP can also be used over wireless networks like Wi-Fi.

You can do tele-working

If you work in an organization using an intranet or extranet, you can still access your office from home through VoIP. You can convert your home into a segment of the office and remotely use the voice, fax and data services of your workplace through the organization’s intranet. The portable nature of the VoIP technology is causing it to gain popularity as the trend is towards portable commodities. Portable hardware is becoming more and more common, as are portable services, and VoIP fits in well.

Fax over IP is reliable and not costly

The problems of fax services using PSTN are high cost for long distances, quality decrease in the analog signals and incompatibility between communicating machines. Real-time fax transmission on VoIP simply uses a fax interface to convert the data into packets and ensures complete delivery of the data in a very reliable way. With VoIP, there is finally not even the need for a fax machine for sending and receiving fax.

It has a more productive software development

 VoIP is able to combine different data types and to make routing and signaling more flexible and strong. As a result, network application developers will find it easier to develop and organize emerging applications for data communication using VoIP. Likewise, the possibility of implementing VoIP software in web browsers and servers gives a more productive and competitive edge to e-commerce and customer service applications.

How will VoIP work?

Telnovo provides VoIP services - high call quality voice, quick interconnection time and terminations into any country in the world.

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 result of this is that by using some of the free VoIP software that is available to make Internet phone calls. By doing this, you are bypassing the phone company (and its charges) entirely.

VoIP is an innovative technology that has the potential to completely rework the world's phone systems. But above all else, VoIP is basically a smart "reinvention of the wheel." In this article, we'll explore the principles behind VoIP, its applications and the potential of this emerging technology, which may replace our traditional phone system.

The interesting thing about VoIP is that there is not just one way to place a call. There are three different "flavors" of VoIP service that are commonly used today:

ATA – ATA (analog telephone adaptor) is the simplest and most common used. This allows you to connect a standard phone to your computer or your Internet connection for use with VoIP . The ATA is an analog-to-digital converter. It takes the analog signal from your traditional phone and converts it into digital data for transmission over the Internet. You simply crack the ATA out of the box, plug the cable from your phone that would normally go in the wall socket into the ATA, and you're ready to make VoIP calls. Some ATAs may ship with additional software that is loaded onto the host computer to organize it. But in any case, it's a very simple and easy setup.

IP Phones -- These specialized phones look just like normal phones with a handset, cradle and buttons. But instead of having the standard RJ-11 phone connectors, IP phones have an RJ-45 Ethernet connector. IP phones connect directly to your router and have all the hardware and software necessary right onboard to handle the IP call. Wi-Fi phones can alsoallow subscribing callers to make VoIP  calls from any Wi-Fi hot spot.

Computer-to-computer -- This is definitely the easiest way to use VoIP. You don't even have to pay for long-distance calls. There are several companies offering free or very low-cost software that you can use for this type of VoIP. All you need is the software, a microphone, speakers, a sound card and an Internet connection, preferably a fast one like you would get through a cable or DSL modem. Except for your normal monthly ISP fee, there is usually no charge for computer-to-computer calls, no matter the distance. Next, you know exactly how VoIP is being used.