WHY VOIP?

VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is the fastest growing trend in telephony. In short, VoIP is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network.

Conventional standard telephone lines are not using VoIP, they are referred to as PSTN or the Public Switched Telephone Network. PSTN works on circuit switching. However, VoIP is Packet Switching. Packet Switching consists of data packets, or packets of information being carried across the Internet, from your computer or IP Phone to either another computer, IP Phone or the traditional PSTN network via a VoIP Gateway. A VoIP Gateway converts traditional PSTN voice circuits to VoIP and the reverse.

VoIP operates in different forms, one you may familiarize is that the VoIP service when you use a voice program or app on your computer or phone to hold a conversation, such as Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts, Google Voice, etc.  Another method of VoIP technology is to use a VoIP service provider for your basic and complex PBX telephony needs. VoIP has revolutionized our way of communicating.

VoIP is important to life. For a monthly fee, you will receive VoIP services, the same as you pay for your regular telephone services. A VoIP phone is like a regular phone except it uses high speed Internet to make calls at a fraction of the cost or for free between different sites or offices.