Thursday, 23 February 2012

IP Telephony: For Cheaper And High Quality Calls Internationally

By Leigh Menston


Today, the internet is used by many individuals to make international or local calls. There are different hardware plus software which enable you to use internet as the medium of transmitting phone calls. If you have free or even fixed rate internet access, IP Telephony software can provide you with free phone calls worldwide.

IPT stands for Internet Protocol telephone and is the general term that describes technologies which use packet-switched internet based protocol to exchange voice and fax plus any other forms of information. For many years, this has usually been carried over circuit-switched connections of public switched phone network.

The IPT service providers may include internet service providers and local telephone companies. Others are cable TV companies and fixed service wireless operators. This technology could also affect the retailers of the traditional handheld devices in some ways.

One of the greatest advantages of IPT is that it is a money-saving and easy to implement technology. IPT Service Providers use a single infrastructure to provide both Internet telephony and Internet access. This results to better bandwidth utilization due to multiplexing data and voice compared to today's over-engineered voice-or-nothing links. Both the providers and their clients benefit from these lower costs.

Today, many customers take advantage of flat internet rates compared to PSTN rates. The cost of long distance calls are quite high in many countries. People who route their long distance calls over the internet thus save lots of cash.

Users of IP Telephony could also benefit greatly from its software-oriented nature. It is easy to integrate and extend software solutions with other services plus applications such as world wide web, white boarding and electronic calendar. In terms of money and time, deploying new IPT services requires lower investment than the traditional PSTN environment. This is therefore the easiest and fastest method of calling internationally.




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