What exactly is a VoIP phone system?
"geoff" wrote in message
marksuley4 wrote:
You use your phone system (also known as a PBX) every
day, so you already know that phone systems are
responsible for handling your call control and managing
your connection to your telephone service provider. What
you might not be familiar with is VoIP.
VoIP is short for Voice over Internet Protocol. VoIP is
a way to make calls across your Local Area Network (LAN)
and or Wide Area Network (WAN).
What is it ? It is a technology that can easily be very
unreliable and frought with complications and problems.
In many parts of the U.S. an implementation of VOIP is called Comcast
Digital Voice.
Ditto for "Vonage" and "Magic Jack".
The reliability of Voip is very implementation-dependent. It's not about
the basic characteristics of the technology, it is about who runs and
maintains it.
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