VoIP Telephone
by Brian Turner
May 18, 2005
When you are looking for a top provider of VOIP Telephone services, you can expect a number of choices due to the large number of providers in operation. At the same time, finding the right VOIP Telephone service provider that offers the exact services and features you are looking for can prove to be a challenge. To that end, it is important that you identify exactly what you are looking for in your VOIP Telephone, and you can then match those specifications against a provider to see which one is the best fit.
If you regularly make long-distance phone calls, chances are you’ve already used VOIP Telephone without even knowing it. IP telephony, known in the industry as VOIP Telephone is the transmission of telephone calls over a data network like one of the many networks that make up the Internet. While you probably have heard of VOIP Telephone, what you may not know is that many traditional telephone companies are already using it in the connections between their regional offices.
Net chat could soon mean just that - talking instead of typing text into an e-mail or instant message using VOIP Telephone.
This is because the net is rapidly replacing telephone networks as the preferred route for phone calls, thanks to a formidably-named technology known as voice-over IP - internet protocol - or VOIP Telephone.
In VOIP Telephone, VoIP converts phone conversations into packets of data to be transmitted down the same wires used to browse the net, send e-mails and swap music. The system of VOIP Telephone makes phone calls very cheap, as all you pay is the local charge to connect to your net service provider. Thus a call to a friend down the road costs the same as a chat with an aunt on the other side of the world.
It’s no wonder that analysts are confused, because their chief information sources–the companies selling VOIP Telephone –are maddeningly inconsistent in how they report their successes or failures.
Cisco Systems is among those companies that suggest measuring just the number of VOIP Telephone that have been shipped. Its market share is staggering in that regard; it has shipped a total of 2 million VoIP Phone –more than its competitors combined.
Other companies, like Avaya, measure their success based on the total number of phone lines shipped. Cisco says that creates an over-inflated number, because companies don’t often max out their VoIP deployments in VoIP Phone.
And along comes this twist from Psytechnics researchers, who queried 185 VoIP-using companies. They found that nearly 95 percent have not appropriately measured the voice quality of their VoIP networks in their VOIP Telephone. Those that are keeping track are using an antiquated method that isn’t appropriate, the survey found.
So that means that there’s no real hard data about voice quality on which businesses can base their decisions, according to Psytechnics, one thing is clear that VoIP Phones are bound to get popularity due to cost competitiveness.
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